Table clock with two bodies; Meissen, c. 1770.

Table clock two bodies; Meissen, c. 1770.
Glazed and enameled porcelain.
It has machinery of later period.
It has slight flaws and Repainting.
It has marks on the base.
Measurements: 45,4 x 24,5 x 16,5 cm.
Eighteenth century table clock. The box, molded in the shape of a shell and trimmed in blue and gold, is ornamented with golden scrolls topped by applied flowers that are dragging; the sides are decorated with openwork panels of golden lattice, on four feet of scroll flanked by reeds and applied flowers. The base, likewise decorated on four scroll feet, has a painted molded cartouche with flowers on the front and gilded floral panels on the sides and back. The upper area is molded with an elaborate gilt foliate scroll. The enameled dial features Arabic numerals in black and Roman numerals in blue.
The model appears in Kaendler's work records of July 1766 as a commission for the Knight of Saxe, in which he notes that it was modeled with great difficulty from a gilt bronze example. Johann Georg, Knight of Saxe (1704-1704), was the illegitimate son of Augustus the Strong and Queen Lubomirska.Another example of this rare clock case and stand model was in the Hermann Emden collection, Hamburg, sold by Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin, November 3-7, 1908, lot 600.