Master Sculpture & Works of Art
Master Sculpture & Works of Art
Property from a Swiss Private Collection
Table Clock in the Shape of a Monstrance (Spiegelubr)
Auction Closed
February 2, 05:19 PM GMT
Estimate
120,000 - 150,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Swiss Private Collection
German, Nuremberg, circa 1580-1620
Table Clock in the Shape of a Monstrance (Spiegelubr)
gilt-bronze and steel, on later circular wood base
height of clock: 11 in.; 28 cm.
height overall: 12 ⅜ in.; 31.5 cm.
with refined chiseling and openwork, surmounted by two heraldic lions presenting a coat of arms engraved with floral ornaments forming ornate scrolls, on a baluster-shaped stem flanked by scrolls, with a circular, domed base pierced with strapwork and a band of acanthus leaves
the movement is made up of a gilt bronze plate and the dial has three bands and a hand decorated with a sun. The first dial indicates the hours of day and night with two series of engraved Roman numerals from I to XII; the second silver dial has engraved hours in Arabic numerals from 1 to 24; the third dial is a lunar calendar in Arabic numerals from 1 to 29 (the last is inscribed 29T") indicated by the tail of the hand. Above, a disc displays the phases of the moon with different engraved motifs. The mechanism on the reverse opens with a convex glass door. Another dial shows the position of the hourly striking mechanism with a scale engraved from 1 to 12 in Arabic numerals. The reverse is entirely engraved with foliate motifs forming arabesques
Fernand Adda (1890-1965), Paris;
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Collection d'un grand amateur, Maurice and Philippe Rheims, 29 November - 3 December 1965, lot 269;
Dr. Peter Guggenheim (1927-2012) and Dr. John Abbott (1925-2020), New York, since at least 1967;
Private Collection, New York;
Jean Nérée Ronfort (1944-2012);
Acquired in 2008.
Art Treasures Exhibition for the Benefit of the Young Women's Christian Association of the City of New York at the Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 1967, no. 320;
K. Maurice, Die deutsche Räderbur. Zur Kunst und Technik des mechanischen Zeitmessers im deutschen Sprachraum, Nuremberg 1580, 1976, vo. II, 2 vols., p. 72, no. 545, illus.;
P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la pendule française du moyen age au XXe siècle, Paris, 1997, illus. p. 30.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Art Treasures Exhibition, 24 May - 7 June 1967 (on loan from Peter Guggenheim).