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A GERMAN ORMOLU AND BRASS-MOUNTED BURR-THUYA AND MAHOGANY OBELISK LONGCASE REGULATOR CLOCK WITH ‘FRANKLIN’ DIAL

Lot 47
02.07.2024 17:00UTC +00:00
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£ 214 200
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Lot 47 | A GERMAN ORMOLU AND BRASS-MOUNTED BURR-THUYA AND MAHOGANY OBELISK LONGCASE REGULATOR CLOCK WITH ‘FRANKLIN’ DIAL
Estimate value
£ 200 000 – 300 000
A GERMAN ORMOLU AND BRASS-MOUNTED BURR-THUYA AND MAHOGANY OBELISK LONGCASE REGULATOR CLOCK WITH ‘FRANKLIN’ DIAL
BY DAVID ROENTGEN AND PETER KINZING IV, NEUWIED, CIRCA 1785-90
CASE; the top surmounted by a triangular pediment inset with mille-raie mounts and decorated with roundels on an oval plinth, flanked by four hour-glasses, the case of tapering obelisk form, the rectangular breakfront door with beaded border and nine brass lined flutes echoing the nine bars of the pendulum rod inside, on a rectangular white marble plinth;
DIAL; the silvered circular dial of ‘Franklin-type’ with three concentric rings each of four hours; ‘XII, I, II, III’, ‘IIII, V, VI, VII’, and ‘VIII, IX, X, XI’, the outer minute track with Roman ten minute divisions to each quarter segment, the large gilt-brass minute hand with inset steel hour indicator within the aperture which adjusts to the correct four-hour ring, subsidiary seconds dial with steel hand to the lower centre, engraved signature ‘Roentgen & Kinzing / A NEUWIED’, the hinged glazed door with beaded border, the square dial mount decorated with mille-raie motifs and roundels;
MOVEMENT; the weight and rope driven three-wheel movement with pin-wheel escapement, the wheels each with four crossings, the 5 ¾ x 4 3/8 inch plates joined by four pillars pinned to the frontplate, the nine-bar pendulum with knife-edge suspension from an 'L'-shaped steel bar mounted to the backplate, with substantial brass weighted bob and fine adjustment dial below
79 ½ in. (201 cm.) high overall; 24 in. (61 cm.) wide; 8 ¼ in. (20.5 cm.) deep




Provenance

Charles Fabri (d. 1938) Paris;
by descent to his niece Marguerite Marie Peten (d. 1986);
thence by descent.



Exhibited

Beauties and Beasts, Czech Embassy and Cultural Centre, Berlin, 25-29 April 2018, catalogue no. 66.
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