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Lot 363 Dα

A Gdansk table clock by Benjamin Zoll

Auction 1220 - overview Cologne
17.05.2023, 14:00 - Furniture Decorative Arts
Estimate: 6.000 € - 8.000 €
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A Gdansk table clock
by Benjamin Zoll

Ormolu clock mounted with silver, iron, brass and glass. Day-running movement with verge escapement over spring and fusee, striking mechanism with spring compartment, hourly striking to a bell at the base. Hexagonal horizontal table clock. Engraved on the plate "BENIAMIN ZOLL DANTZIG". H 8, D 14.4 cm.
Second half 17th C. / around 1700.

Provenance

Private collection, Cologne.

Literature

This clockmaker mentioned in Abeler, Meister der Uhrmacherkunst, Wuppertal 1977, p. 682.
Cf. also Baillie, Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World, London 5/1966, p. 353.