Highlights
Astronomical clock
- Artist
- Aurelius a San Daniele, Johann Georg Dirr
- Locality
- Vienna and Mimmenhausen
- Date
- c. 1769
- Material
- Iron, silver, copper, brass, wood, polychromed, partly gilded
- Dimensions
- H. 290 cm
- Location
- Gallery 46
- Inventory Number
- 33/134
- Acquisition
- Bequest of Ernst von Bassermann-Jordan in 1933
- Epoch
- Baroque and Rococo
- Categories
- Clocks and Scientific Instruments
Description
This monumental tall-case clock once furnished a room in the Cistercian Abbey of Salem at Lake Constance. The complex but concealed clockwork by the Viennese Augustinian priest Aurelius a San Daniele displays various time systems as well as calendrical and astronomical information. The early classicist housing was created by the sculptor Johann Georg Dirr, who continued the workshop of the more famous Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer. Particularly charming are the masterfully carved putti frolicking on the case and merrily playing with the signs of the zodiac.
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