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No.117. 2711 A quite superb walnut Laterndluhr. The case of the most superb quality is made from solid oak & walnut and then veneered in walnut with the finest veneers. The pedimented hood has complex ogee mouldings to the rooftop with fine figuring not just to the veneers on the flat surfaces but also to the mouldings themselves. It has a double step down to the opening front door and the whole hood, as on all Laterndluhrs, slides off. There are carved ears to the sides of the trunk at the top rather than the more normal block mouldings and again the quality of veneers on the door and on the backboard are superb. There is a further moulding which brings the trunk into the bottom box which proceeds into the base via a cushion block before going into the under curved base, typical of Viennas. This is one of the finest cases that we have seen on a Viennese Laterndluhr and the proportions and figuring are of the highest quality. The eight day weight driven grande sonnerie movement strikes the hours and quarters on two steel gongs mounted on the backplate and is fixed into the case via a seatboard. The quality of the wheel work is excellent and the under dial work is beautifully executed. The enamel dial with Roman numerals is signed for the maker ‘Jacob Hitzinger in Wien’ with unusually ‘Fecit’ under the ‘in Wien.’ The dial is surrounded by a beautifully engine turned and gilded bezel. There is a strike/silent lever behind 1 o’clock on the back of the dial. The steel rod pendulum has a heavy brass bob with a well shaped steel pointer mounted on the face of the bob and pointing down to the shaped regulation nut. Length: 49" (125 cms.) |
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| The maker, Jacob Hitzinger II, trained
under Andreas Fusz and was made Free in 1802. He became a Clock Master in
1820 and died in 1856. He was noted as a maker of large clocks as well as
domestic clocks. A year duration Laterndluhr by Jacob Hitzinger is shown
on page 194, figure 427, in the Kaltenbock book and interestingly has an
almost identical steel pointer on the pendulum.
Provenance This clock has been owned by Dr. Polterauer’s family since 1940. It was a present from a 93 year old patient to his father, who was a heart surgeon in 1940, for saving his life. This is the first time it has changed hands since that date. The area in Vienna where the family lived is a high class residential area very close to the museum that houses the Sobek Collection. |
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