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AN AUGSBURG GILT-METAL AND EBONY AUTOMATON STRIKING LION CLOCK
Jeremias Pfaff. Augsburg, circa 1670
The well-cast gilt-metal crowned rampant lion with automaton glass eyes and jaw articulated by the strike sequence, its left paw resting on a foliate engraved dial cartouche (now lacking chapter ring), the gilt-copper chequer-hatched octagonal base plate signed Jeremias Pfaff Augsburg next to the silver foliate engraved subsidiary quarter hour ring, the octagonal plated gilt-brass movement with four double-screwed brass pillars of square section, going train with early steel chain to the fusee and barrel with pinned end caps, plain three-arm brass balance to the verge escapement, going barrel for the strike with intricate inter-linked steel arms on the top-plate to the hour and half hour strking countwheel, the steel hammer striking on a single bell, the octagonal ebony base stamped EBN with ripple-moulded panels set with gilt-metal portrait medallions and foliate mounts and terminating in a flared skirt supported on four gilt-metal toupie feet
13¾ in. (35 cm.) high
