The Wellby Collection

Clock

A. Abershauser

parcel-gilt silver, copper, niello or black enamel

c. 1745

10.7 cm height

signature: 'A. Abershauser, Eÿchstett' (on back)

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Place of Creation: Eichstätt

WA2013.1.342

Clock, silver, parcel-gilt. The face is cast with scrolls, lion supporters, a parcel-gilt dial with niello or black enamel; Roman numerals I to XII and arabic numerals for minutes 5 to 60. The pendulum hangs over the dial from a bracket. The mechanism is in a coffin-shaped box, signed on the back: 'A:ABERSHAUSER EYCHSTETT'.

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Bequeathed by Michael Wellby, 2012.