- Immerwährender Kalender

auction 928, Lot 15

THE RUDOLF NEUMEISTER COLLECTION - HIGHLIGHTS

on 22 October 2019

 

Immerwährender Kalender

estimate:
€ 3.000 to € 3.200

Differenzbesteuerung    

result:
€ 5.080 (incl. 27 % buyer's premium)

description:

A Perpetual Calendar

Augsburg, 1713 - 1717, Gabriel I Bessmann

 

Silver, gold-plated. Quatrefoil form, central dial with apertures for year, month and day. Embossed and chased fruit, foliate, floral and tropaion decoration on textured ground, the bust of a general beneath a canopy to the finial. Hallmarked (Seling 2007, hallmark number 1440, makers mark number 1811), master 1685, died 1735. Minor damage. Height 43 cm. Approximately 600 grams.