Mantel clock

Clockmaker: Franz Xavier Gegenreiner  (master in 1770)

Maker:
Case maker: Johann Andreas Thelot (1655–1734)
Date:
case ca. 1710, movement ca. 1770–90
Culture:
German (Augsburg)
Medium:
Case: repoussé silver, partly gilded, and tortoiseshell veneer; Movement: brass and steel
Dimensions:
31-3/4 x 17 x 11-1/4 in. (80.6 x 43.2 x 28.6 cm)
Classification:
Horology
Credit Line:
Rogers Fund, 1946
Accession Number:
46.162
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Signature: Case, incised on left plaque, on anvil; and on bottom plaque, beneath kneeling Cupid: J. A. Thelot Movement, on the back plate: Xaveri Gegenreiner/Augsburg

    Marking: On each of four main silver plaques: [1] weevil (French mark for gold and silver imported articles, in use 1836-1864)

  • Provenance

    Baroness James de Rothschild (by 1912) ; J. & S. Goldschmidt ; William Randolph Hearst (until 1941; William R. Hearst collection sale, Hammer Galleries, 1941, p. 307); Anonymous (until 1946; sale, "Fine French furniture and objects of art... from private owners," November 22, 1946, no. 102, sold as from "N.Y. Private Collector")

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