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Astronomical plate clock

Description

Johann Georg Mayr was court clockmaker to the Bavarian Elector Ferdinand Maria and was commissioned in 1663 to wind, repair and maintain all the clocks of the Residenz.

Object description

Manufacturer: Johann Georg Mayr († ca. 1684)

Munich, around 1650

Brass partly gilded, tin, copper, iron, steel partly blued

Signature: Joh. Georg Maÿr inn Munich

Deposit Dr. Eugen Gschwind Foundation, Basel, G.188

Inv. 1983.1188.

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