Case: Roentgen manufacture, Neuwied, influenced by Chippendale, mahogany on oak, engraved with the signature on the left: ‘Roentgen’, the signature on the right: ‘Neuwied’.

Dimensions: 277 cm high, 52 cm wide, 39 cm deep.

Enamelled dial with signature: ‘KINZING / A NEUWIED’, gilt brass hands for hours and minutes, second hand missing, melody scale with the designations: ‘Andante, Menuet, Polonaise, Allegro, Lied’, flute mechanism missing.

Provenance: formerly from the Comte de Salverte collection, Château Ray-sur-Saône.

Literature in selection :

(François) Comte de Salverte, Les Ebénistes du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris 1923 – here: 5th ed. 1962, TF. 61 :1 ; for the shelfmark: ibid., p. 287.

Hans Huth, Abraham und David Roentgen und ihre Neuwieder Möbelwerkstatt, Berlin 1928, Tf. 59: links; for the shelfmark: ibid., p. 69:59 links, Abb. Tf. III.

Josef Maria Greber, Abraham und David Roentgen. Furniture for Europe, 2 vols, Starnberg 1980, vol. 2, p. 349, figs. 708 + 709.

On the signature:

ibid., vol.1, p. 271. Dietrich Fabian, Kinzing and Roentgen. Uhren aus Neuwied, Bad Neustadt 1984, no. 39. Ibid., Abraham und David Roentgen. Von der Schreinerwerkstatt zur Kunstmöbel-Manufaktur, Bad Neustadt/Saale 1992, p. 53 with Figs. 116, 117 a+b.

On the signature: ibid, p. 59. Kreismuseum Neuwied (ed.), Kinzing & Co., Innovative Uhren aus der Provinz, 2003, pp. 106-107: no. 13. A.Büttner et al. (eds.), Edle Möbel für Höchste Kreise, exhib. cat. Neuwied, Andernach 2007, p. 233: no. 45.

On pricing: Collection Roberto Polo, Ader Tajan Paris 7 Nov. 1991, lot 136 (watch owned by the Princes of Sayn Wittgenstein-Hohenstein, illustrated in Greber, op. cit., vol. 2, p. p. 349, fig. 710).

Estimated price: 1,000,000 / 1,500,000 FFR, accepted bid 900,000 FFR, see Art Price Yearbook 1992, vol. 2, p. 451 – acquired in 1997 by the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn for DM 1,100,000, see Weltkunst 1 Jan. 1998, p. 132.

Neidhardt, Munich, grandfather clock from the property of Duke Charles of Lorraine, sold for DM 1,600,000 to a private individual, see FAZ of 4 Jan. 1997, p. 33.