SMALL CHINOISERIE BRACKET CLOCK

Clockmaker: Tobias Tretsch (Wels around 1700 – 1729 Vienna)
Date: Vienna around 1725
Height: 44 cm (with handle)
Signature: “Tobias Tretsch Inn Wienn”
Duration: 36 hours

Description: Partially ebonized and leaf-gilded case with chinoiserie painting, brass fittings, brass feet and carrying handle, partially engraved brass pediment with fire-gilded appliqués, silvered chapter ring and subsidiary dial for date, blued openwork steel hands, verge escapement, chain and fusee winding, engraved backplate, short attached pendulum