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Lot 979 Dα

A small rare Bremen table clock

Auction 1152 - overview Cologne
29.05.2020, 14:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €
Result: 3.250 € (incl. premium)
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A small rare Bremen table clock

Gilt brass clock with silver dial, black Roman numerals and blued steel hands. Day-running with verge escapement and hourly striking on a bell. Very finely chased details, the flat cube-shaped case resting on bun feet. The plate engraved "Fridrich Hübner (...)men". Alarm hammer and hands replaced. H 6.5, W 9.1, D 9.1 cm.
Bremen, Friedrich Hübner, documented 1630 – 1648.

Literature

This clockmaker in: Abeler, Meister der Uhrmacherkunst, Wuppertal 1977, p. 297. Cf. Focke, Bremische Werkmeister aus älterer Zeit : als Beitrag zur Nordwestdeutschen Gewerbe- und Industrie-Ausstellung, Bremen 1890, p. 95 f.