A Prussian architectural marble and ormolu-mounted black-elder-burr organ-clock crowned by Urania

the case by David Hacker, clock by Chr. Möllinger, marble-work attr. to Friedrich Wichmann

Berlin, ca. 1797
270 × 82.5 × 57 cm

Provenance

• Sotheby’s London 21.06.1974, Lot 26
• Galerie Aveline Paris
• Collection Robert de Balkany, Paris

Literature

• Klaus Maurice: Die deutsche Räderuhr, Volume I and II, Munich, 1976, page 111
• Silke Kiesant; Prunkuhren am brandenburgisch-preußischen Hof im 18. Jahrhundert, page 384 / 42.4

Expertise

Dr. Achim Stiegel, Berlin