Royal & Noble
Royal & Noble
Property from the collection of the late Visconde de Lançada
A renaissance gilt-brass horizontal table clock, Samuel Haug, Augsburg, circa 1630,
Lot Closed
January 18, 02:31 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the collection of the late Visconde de Lançada
A renaissance gilt-brass horizontal table clock, Samuel Haug, Augsburg, circa 1630,
2¾-inch silvered dial divided I-XII and 1-6 twice, single hour hand, the movement with chain fusee to the going train and verge escapement with later spring balance and regulation, standing barrel to the striking train with numbered locking plate mounted on the backplate and cut for double six hour striking on a bell within the base of the case, signed on the backplate SA:HA either side of the pineapple town mark for Augsburg, the moulded square case with glazed side panels, turned feet and pierced bell cover
11cm 4¼in square: 8.5cm 3¼in high
Dom Alexandre de Sousa e Holstein Beck, Visconde de Lançada (1934-2014);
Thence by descent to the present owner.
Samuel Haug was born in Augsburg, Germany in around 1580 and became a master clockmaker in 1612. Clocks by Haug are found in the V & A Museum, London, the Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna and the Poldi Pezzoli Collection, Milan. He died in Augsburg in 1637.
This small table clock by Haug is unsual in striking one to six twice rather than one to twelve. The power saving of not having to strike the full twelve hours enabled the clock to be kept small but also to run for longer on a single winding.