CLASSICISTICAL LONGCASE CLOCK

Clockmaker: Franciscus Seiffner (1761 Pest - 1822 Pest)

Date: Budapest, circa 1795

Signature: „Franciscus Seiffner fecit Pesthini“

Measurements: H 223 cm

Description: duration 8 days

Mahogany veneered case in the form of a fluted pillar, carved and gilt mouldings and crest, enamel dial, center sweep second’s hand, perpetual calendar with retrograde date display, jumping date, indication for week day with daily regents, month with signs of the zodiac (in symbols), indication of the four seasons, excentric indication of time, fire gilt brass hands, gilt engine turned bezel, recoil escapement, spring suspension, brass rod second’s beating pendulum.

Clockmaker repair signature at the plate:„Johan Hillrich hat das Schlagen von seiner Erfindung zu gerichtet 1833 den 1. Nov.“

There is one „Laterndluhr“ by Seiffner in the Kiscelli Museum in Budapest. Compare longcase clock in form of a pillar in the Geymüller-Schlössl (MAK, Vienna, inv.no. 1480) or a longcase clock by Fertbauer in the Clock Museum (Uhrenmuseum / WienMuseum) in Vienna, pictured in: Frederick Kaltenböck: Die Wiener Uhr. Wien – Ein Zentrum der Uhrmacherei im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert, Munich 1988, p. 27, fig. 26.

Provenance: Mihály Pollack (1773 Vienna – 1855 Pest) famous Austrian-Hungarian architect of the neoclassicism, studied at the Vienna Academy of Arts, important buildings: Hungarian National Museum and Ludoviceum in Budapest or the castle of Palatin Joseph, the brother of Emperor Franz I. in Alcsut. Than by decent his son from his second marriage Alexander Ritter von Pollak-Klumberg (1821 Pest – 1889 Wien), Baron König Vienna, then Private Collecton Bad Ischl, Upper Austria.