Mobile Trumeau with Clock, Duchy of Modena, 18th Century

Clock cabinet, Duchy of Modena, 18th century. Clockmaker: Mauro Sabbatini, active in Modena in the 18th Century. Trumeau cabinet, curved on the front and sides, entirely veneered in walnut and walnut burl, with curved supports. Guitar-shaped upper section in carved wood and flamed walnut veneer, bearing a clock mechanism signed and dated "Mauro Sabbatini Modena 1766." Inside the mechanism, which features six movements and a double chime, the signature and date are engraved. The large majolica dial, the cartouche inside which bears the inscription "MAURO SABBATINI MODENA," includes four small dials with hours, seconds, months, days of the month, constellations, days of the week, and phases of the moon. The cabinet is embellished with three gilded papier-mâché sculptures, depicting classical figures playing musical instruments. Mauro Sabbatini, born in 1733 and residing at Via Stella 8 in Modena, was a ducal clockmaker until 1794. The piece comes from a private collection in Emilia, to which it arrived in the 1960s, after being exhibited at the IV Biennale of Antiques in Florence in 1965. cm 320 x 137 x 63 Provenance: Private collection, Modena City of Florence - Palazzo Strozzi International Antique Exhibition, IV Biennale, October 1965, Page 333, Plate 145 Sabbatini Heirs, Modena Bibliographic references: Giorgio Boccolari, KRONOS, Modena 1993: Pages 59, 76, 89, 124.