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Magnificent gilt-bronze mounted mahogany organ and dulcimer musical longcase clock from the workshops of Kinzing and Roentgen, signed Achenbach & Schmidt, Neuwied, Germany circa 1785
A similar clock, but lacking the musical mechanism, was offered Christie's New York 2nd November 2000 lot 202.
Description: The Neo Classical case with urn finial above an oval stepped cresting and further urn finials, the hood door applied with gilt-brass fluted panels in the upper corners and further gilt mounts, flanked by brass mounted pilasters,the trunk with fluted gilt-brass frieze around the top and centered with miniature portrait roundels on the sides and, at the front, with a ribbon-tied floral roundel, the panelled trunk with turned paterae in the corners and flanked by brass quadrant pilasters, similarly decorated plinth, each side with two doors fitted with fabric panels.
Measurements:
Origin The family tradition is that the clock was bought by Liebert as a wedding gift on the occasion of his daughter's marriage to Johann Schaezler in 1785. A similar clock had been delivered to Empress Catherine the Great of Russia in 1784. The
famous cabinet making firm of Roentgen
The clockmaking family of Kinzing was founded by Johann (1681-1769) who had three sons and two daughters. The most famous of the sons was Christian (1707-1804) who worked closely with David Roentgen to produce some wonderful clocks. The daughters married two clockmakers Herman Achenbach (baptised 1730, died 1792) and Johann Schmidt (1734-1795): Achenbach worked with his brother-in-law Christian Kinzing from 1753 and eventually set up another branch of the Kinzing workshop with Johann Schmidt in 1777 working in the Kinzing tradition and using Roentgen cases. Achenbach died in 1792 and this workshop was closed although two grand-sons of Christian Kinzing, Carl (1781-1840) and Christian (1778-1861) continued as clockmakers working to the same high standards until 1838 when the Kinzing workshop finally closed. Although Peter Kinzing (1709-1743) was an organ maker he was dead by the time this clock was made and it is likely that the musical mechanism was made by the Weyl brothers, Johann Christian (1758-1827) and Johann Wilhelm (1768-1813), who collaborated with the Kinzing family in the making of musical mechanisms. They founded the organ factory `Gebrüder Weyl' at Neuwied in 1807.
Museale
Bodenstanduhr mit Flötenwerk David
Roentgen & Gebrüder Kinzing
David
Roentgen war der berühmteste Kunst- und Kabinetttischler
des 18. Besonders Katharina 11 war von den Kunstobjekten öußerst angetan. Äußerst selten sind Uhren mit Orgelwerken gefertigt von Christian und Johann Wilhelm Weyl. Beide waren langjährige Mitarbeiter der Roentgen-Kinzing Werkstätte. 1807/1808 gründeten sie in Neuwied die Orgelfabrik „Gebrüder Weil", die von ihren Nochfahren bis zum Jahre 1888 weitergeführt wurde. Diese Uhr war schon zu ihrer Entstehungszeit besonders selten und ein kostbares Kunstwerk. Sie war für ihre komplizierte Mechanik und die perfekte Ausführung berühmt. Es ist einer der Höhepunkte im Leben eines Sammlers, solch ein Objekt nicht nur im Museum, sondern am freien Markt zu finden. Unter anderem befindet sich eine Standuhr von Roentgen im Metropoliton-Museum in New York. Quelle: Katalog zur Verkaufsausstellung "Tempora Antiqua", D & S, Wien |