Vitrine 12
Single display case 12
Object description
Pendulum with base
Manufacturer: Johann Georg Krampe (1729-1790) (movement); Joseph de Saint-Germain (case)
Basel, Paris, around 1770
Wood, bronze, gilded, enamel
Signatures: St. Germain JME Jean George Krampe a Basle
Bequest Oscar Binz, Basel
Inv. 1979.349.
Johann Georg Krampe (1729-1790) took over the specialty of wall clocks in cases from his father-in-law Johann Jakob Zeller (1701-1778). The cases he purchased - as with this object - partly from Joseph de Saint-Germain in Paris.