square dial with cherub-cast spandrels to the silvered chapter ring with Arabic and Roman numerals and cruciform half hour markers, enclosing a matted center, with mock pendulum and calendar apertures, both with engraved borders, and later ebonized hands, strike/not strike lever above XII, the eight-day movement with five knopped and ringed pillars, twin line fusees, reconverted to verge escapement with later apron and strike on bell, the back plate with foliate engraving and signed 'Markwick London' one pendulum, one winder, restorations, probably formerly with a pull repeatġ8 in. The pierced repousse brass basket top worked with flower-filled vases and garlands surmounted by a double scroll handle and flanked by four vase finials, rectangular glazed side panels, and raised on later brass bracket feet, the 6½ in.
(26.5 cm.) deepĪ QUEEN ANNE BRASS-MOUNTED WALNUT STRIKING TABLE CLOCK The figure of bacchus, with part polychrome surfaces, sitting astride a wine barrel holding a vine-wrapped staff to his left hand and a bottle to his right, with automaton features his eyes moving with the balance spring, his right arm rising to his opening jaw at the hour, ebonised glazed hexagonal base raised on recumbent lion feet, the rear of barrel stamped 'C K' flanking an Augsburg pine cone mark and with strap engraved 'XXXX IIII', the barrel front with silvered twice XII dial, the foliate engraved base with quarters dial, both with enamel decoration the movement with hexagonal steel top plate and brass bottom plate joined by steel pillars, twin gut fusees and plain steel spring balance, formerly with hog's hair regulation, bell and hinged base plateġ2 in. HANS CHRISTOPH KREITZER OR KONRAD KREITZER, AUGSBURG, FIRST QUARTER 17TH CENTURY, LATER BASE Should you have any questions in regards to Clocks that you might wish to evaluate or to list in future auctions, please visit the CONTACT page, the VALUATIONS page or the REQUEST INFORMATION page or send an email to Centurion Auctioneers - GERMAN GILT-BRONZE AND BRASS STRIKING AND AUTOMATON BACCHUS CLOCK Hover over the images on the left for more information. These range from: Grand father clock, wall clocks, bracket clocks, mantel clocks, lantern clocks, table clocks and carriage clocks.Ĭlocks are always present in Fine Furnishings and Decorated Arts auctions at Centurion Auctioneers which are held regularly. This device was the best time-keeping instrument until the electric clock was invented in 1840.įine Maltese, French, German, Italian, Swiss and English examples are often found in local auctions and they attract a great deal of interest especially when a rare pieces are up for sale. Around the mid 17ᵗʰ century the pendulum clock was invented, giving time further precision and accuracy. In the mid 15ᵗʰ century the spring-driven clock was invented and by the early 16ᵗʰ century clock making flourished. 1300 Europe had a major advance when the invention of the escapement was seen for the first time, thus abolished the earlier devices. Over the course of time different operating devices have been used to meet such need, which are: the sundial, the hour glass, and the water clock, all three being by far the oldest time-measuring instruments known to date. The clock is one of humanities oldest inventions, a device to consistently measure intervals of time shorter than the natural units: the day, the lunar month, and the year.
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