A rare Black Forest carved wood quarter-striking cuckoo table clock Attributed to Johann Baptist Beha, Eisenbach, circa 1870 The wooden framed triple fusee movement with anchor escapement regulated by short pendulum with heavy brass-faced bob, the hour strike train with outside countwheel and linkages to two bellows and a cuckoo automaton who appears from behind the right hand door above the dial to announce the hour with a two-note call followed by hammer sounding on a gong fitted to the inside of the rear case panel, the quarter train similarly arranged with automaton appearing from behind the left hand door to announce each quarter with a single high-pitch note, the circular wooden dial carved with a leafy rosette to centre within chapter ring applied with Gothic style bone numerals, with leaf carved and pierced bone hands and moulded bezel, the gabled case with naturalistic facade incorporating crest carved with a pair of eagles before a rock face flanking the small pair of doors for the cuckoo automata over pendant leafy trails flanking dial and high-relief scene of a deer being chased by a hound within oversize foliate borders to apron, on serpentine outline base, the sides with small rectangular doors (right hand lacking) enclosing strike/chime silent control levers to the left hand side over swollen base sections carved as rocky outcrops, the rear with lift-out panel fitted with a coiled gong to inside surface, 57cm (22.5ins) high. Johann Baptist Beha was born in Oberbrand, 1815 and was trained as a clockmaker by his father, Vinzenz, before setting-up on his own in Eisenbach in 1845. He specialised in cuckoo clocks and through his continuous development became the leading maker of fine and complex examples. His main export markets were to Russia (where he had a distribution warehouse in St. Petersburg) and the British Isles. He died in 1898 leaving the business to be continued by his sons Lorenz and Engelbert. An almost identical cuckoo clock by Beha is illustrated in Schneider, Wilhelm BEHA-UHREN, Kuckucksuhren von Johann Baptist Beha und seinen wichtigstein konkurrenten page 231, fig. 351. Condition report disclaimer
A rare Black Forest carved wood quarter-striking cuckoo table clock Attributed to Johann Baptist Beha, Eisenbach, circa 1870 The wooden framed triple fusee movement with anchor escapement regulated by short pendulum with heavy brass-faced bob, the hour strike train with outside countwheel and linkages to two bellows and a cuckoo automaton who appears from behind the right hand door above the dial to announce the hour with a two-note call followed by hammer sounding on a gong fitted to the inside of the rear case panel, the quarter train similarly arranged with automaton appearing from behind the left hand door to announce each quarter with a single high-pitch note, the circular wooden dial carved with a leafy rosette to centre within chapter ring applied with Gothic style bone numerals, with leaf carved and pierced bone hands and moulded bezel, the gabled case with naturalistic facade incorporating crest carved with a pair of eagles before a rock face flanking the small pair of doors for the cuckoo automata over pendant leafy trails flanking dial and high-relief scene of a deer being chased by a hound within oversize foliate borders to apron, on serpentine outline base, the sides with small rectangular doors (right hand lacking) enclosing strike/chime silent control levers to the left hand side over swollen base sections carved as rocky outcrops, the rear with lift-out panel fitted with a coiled gong to inside surface, 57cm (22.5ins) high. Johann Baptist Beha was born in Oberbrand, 1815 and was trained as a clockmaker by his father, Vinzenz, before setting-up on his own in Eisenbach in 1845. He specialised in cuckoo clocks and through his continuous development became the leading maker of fine and complex examples. His main export markets were to Russia (where he had a distribution warehouse in St. Petersburg) and the British Isles. He died in 1898 leaving the business to be continued by his sons Lorenz and Engelbert. An almost identical cuckoo clock by Beha is illustrated in Schneider, Wilhelm BEHA-UHREN, Kuckucksuhren von Johann Baptist Beha und seinen wichtigstein konkurrenten page 231, fig. 351. Condition report disclaimer
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