A PRUSSIAN GILT-BRASS GRANDE SONNERIE HEXAGONAL TABLE CLOCK WITH DOUBLE HOUR STRIKE
WOLF HEINRICH GAUER, KÖNIGSBERG. THIRD QUARTER 17TH CENTURY AND LATER
CASE: framed glass side panels, on winged lion feet to all corners, hinged base plate with turn catch and set with hour and quarter bells; regilded
DIAL: engraved winged cherub spandrels, replaced silvered chapter ring with foliate engraved centre, replaced blued steel hands
MOVEMENT: with six ringed tapering pillars, single chain fusee for the going and three engraved fixed barrels for the strike trains, later verge and balance escapement with replaced pierced and engraved balance cock, signed 'Wolf Heinrich Gauer Königsberg', pierced and engraved cock to blued steel set up ratchet, the hammers with engraved zoomorphic heads; restorations, adaptations to trains and under dial work
4 in. (10 cm.) high; 6½ in. (16.5 cm.) wide
A PRUSSIAN GILT-BRASS GRANDE SONNERIE HEXAGONAL TABLE CLOCK WITH DOUBLE HOUR STRIKE
WOLF HEINRICH GAUER, KÖNIGSBERG. THIRD QUARTER 17TH CENTURY AND LATER
CASE: framed glass side panels, on winged lion feet to all corners, hinged base plate with turn catch and set with hour and quarter bells; regilded
DIAL: engraved winged cherub spandrels, replaced silvered chapter ring with foliate engraved centre, replaced blued steel hands
MOVEMENT: with six ringed tapering pillars, single chain fusee for the going and three engraved fixed barrels for the strike trains, later verge and balance escapement with replaced pierced and engraved balance cock, signed 'Wolf Heinrich Gauer Königsberg', pierced and engraved cock to blued steel set up ratchet, the hammers with engraved zoomorphic heads; restorations, adaptations to trains and under dial work
4 in. (10 cm.) high; 6½ in. (16.5 cm.) wide
