Table clock: very rare miniature horizontal table clock, Gottfried

Approx. 80 mm in diameter, hexagonal case, glazed on the sides, verge escapement, 2 barrels, alarm and quarter-hour repeater, silver dial mounting, iron hands, very good condition, movement intact. The clock is described and illustrated in: Peter Plassmeyer, Mathematical-Physical Salon, Dresden State Art Collections, ‘The so-called horizontal table clock and the migration of clockmakers and moulds in the 16th and 17th centuries’, source: (https://www.cortrie.de/go/XoB).

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