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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.

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