IMPORTANT CLASSICISM MUSICAL AND AUTOMATON BRACKET CLOCK.
Bremen. Ca. 1780. Johann Eberhard Castens.

Wooden case with marbled polychromy. Glass painting in eglomis? Gilt dial with silver-plated chapter ring. Polychromed automaton with figures. Upright rectangular case with scalloped edges. In the tympanum and on the sides antique-style muses. Dial with flower engravings and pierced spanrel decorations; chapter ring with Roman numerals and Arabic minutes; automaton with two dancing couples and display of the four melodies in the lunette. Large rectangular mechanism with verge movement; three barrels and pear pendulum. Repetition. 60x37x20cm.
Inscribed on a label on the back cover: Alle Sorten Uhren macht und verkauft J.E. Castens wohnt auf der Fuullen (Faulen) Stra遝 in Bremen. (All types of clocks and watches made and sold by J.E. Castens lives in Fuullen Stra遝 in Bremen)
Condition B. (P/S).

Provenance:
Private collection Lower Saxony; acquired in 1980 from Kunsthandel Peter Heuer; Bremen.

Literature:
J黵gen Abeler: Meister der Uhrmacherkunst; Wuppertal 2010. Maker mentioned on p. 97.


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