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Lot 465 D‡α

A silver perpetual calendar with writing tablet

Auction 1244 - overview Cologne
15.05.2024, 10:00 - Silver Porcelain Ceramics
Estimate: 2.000 € - 2.400 €
Result: 3.528 € (incl. premium)
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A silver perpetual calendar with writing tablet

Smooth rectangular silver case with finely engraved acanthus and flowerhead motifs inset with four ivory writing tablets. The cover, engraved "Calendarium Perpetuum", shows the seven days of the week with a mobile date aperture. The base shows the changing lengths of night and day, the time of sunrise and the most important name days. H 7.6; W 4.3 cm.
Unmarked, attributed to Johann Georg Mettel, early 18th C.

Certificate

Sales permit DE-K-240325-150 for the EU internal market has been obtained.

Literature

Cf. an almost identical calendar attributed to Mettel in the Kunstgewerbesammlung der Stadt Bielefeld, Huelsmann Collection, illustrated in cat. Wissenschaftliche Instrumente und Sonnenuhren, Munich 1989, no. 99. A signed calendar by this maker is in the collection of the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, illustrated in cat. no. 768. GNM 2007, no. 768.