Beschreibung:

A Fine Viennese mahogany grande-sonnerie striking Dachluhr regulator wall clock, Anton Pohl, Vienna, circa 1830 The four pillar triple train eight-day movement with shallow-arch plates and deadbeat escapement incorporating tall inverted V-shaped pallets regulated by brass lenticular bob pendulum with ebonised wooden shaft to the weight-driven going train, the quarter train driven by standing spring barrel and sounding on the smaller of the pair of graduated gongs positioned behind the movement followed by the hour train again powered by a standing spring barrel and sounding the last hour on the larger of the two, the 6.5 inch circular two-piece silvered Roman numeral dial signed Anton Pohl, IN WIEN to the slightly recessed centre within gilt engine-turned border and chapter ring with outer minute track, with blued steel hands within fine gilt engine-turned bezel, the figured mahogany six-light case with foliate carved scroll pediment over elaborate ripple-moulded ogee cornice and slender-framed full-height front door incorporating square glazed dial aperture over conforming rectangular panel within box-strung surrounds applied with twist-carved mouldings to uprights, the sides with conforming glazed apertures over cavetto shaped base incorporating ripple-carved collar and terminating with a simple inverted arch, 109cm (43ins) high. Anton Pohl is recorded in Kaltenbock, Frederick Viennese Timepieces as becoming a Viennese Master in March 1835 and is thought to have worked until his death twenty years later in 1855.