An Augsburg figural clock "Urania"

An Augsburg figural clock "Urania"

Gilt copper and bronze, engraved dial and silver hands, ebonised wood base and later red velvet to the interior. One day movement with hourly striking to a bell. Designed as a figure of Urania, the muse of astrology, recumbent upon a moulded gilt copper plinth upon a contrasting ebonised wood base. The sceptre in her right hand forms the hour hand of the clock, pointing towards the hour indices on the equatorial band of the globe on a column. Engraved to the upper right of the plate "Hannß Buschmann A". H 16.3, W 20, D 11.6 cm.

Hanns Buschmann, 2nd quarter 17th C.

** Provenance
Private collection, Lower Saxony.