PENDULETTE AUTOMATE
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PENDULETTE AUTOMATE

PAR PAUL SCHILLER, NUREMBERG, VERS 1620-1630

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PENDULETTE AUTOMATE
PAR PAUL SCHILLER, NUREMBERG, VERS 1620-1630
Figurant Uranie allongée, accoudée à un coussin, bougeant la tête et sa baguette lorsque l'horloge sonne, tenant un globe pivotant sur lequel elle indique les heures au moyen de sa baguette, sur une base en ébène à décor de sirènes dans des rinceaux présentant un tiroir latéral, la partie supérieure s'ouvrant pour découvrir le mouvement, les plaques rectangulaires réunies par six montants, signé "Paul Schiller", restaurations
Hauteur : 19.75 cm. (7¾ in.), Largeur : 26 cm. (10 1/4 in.), Profondeur : 19 cm. (7½ in.)
Literature
Bibliographie comparative:
K. Maurice, Die deutsche Räderuhr, Volume II, Munich, 1976, figs. 376-381
D. Roberts, Mystery, Novelty and Fantasy Clocks, Atglen, 1999, p.40, fig.3-13
Exhibited
Galerie J. Kugel, Paris.
Special Notice
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Further Details
A SOUTH GERMAN GILT-METAL AND EBONY STRIKING AND AUTOMATON FIGURAL CLOCK
PAUL SCHILLER, NUREMBERG, CIRCA 1620-30
Modelled as a figure of reclining Urania, who moves her head and wand when the clock strikes, supporting a revolving globe banded with a chapter ring, indicating the time via a wand, above pierced gilt-metal frets and ebony plinth with ripple-moulded borders, a key drawer to one side, the top hinged and opening to reveal the movement; the rectangular plates joined by six pillars secured with steel nuts, stackfreed planted on the back plate, the fixed time barrel engraved with figures of a man and a woman, the fixed strike barrel plain,

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