Clocks · Wall clock
Wall clock by Steiner, early 19th century
- Maker / attribution
- Steiner (Maker)
- Date
- early 19th century
- Historical period
- Precision & Scientific Horology (1750 – 1850)
- Country of origin
- Unrecorded in source
- Object type
- Wall clock
- Dimensions
- Höhe: 47.0 cm (Rahmen)
- Holding institution
- Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe
- Accession / object no.
- P 1024 (Inventarnummer)
- Credit line
- Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe
- Catalogue title (original)
- Wanduhr einer Odenwälder Bauernstube (German)
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Record summary
Held and catalogued by Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe (object number P 1024 (Inventarnummer)), this is a wall clock by Steiner, dated early 19th century. The Atlas places it in the Precision & Scientific Horology period (1750 – 1850) of its Clocks collection. Recorded dimensions: Höhe: 47.0 cm (Rahmen). The record is illustrated with 2 photographs.
Assembled from the source record's structured fields. Dates and attributions are given as the source states them; where a field is missing the Atlas leaves it blank rather than estimating.
Catalogue description
Catalogue description from Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe
Diese Wanduhr war Bestandteil einer Odenwälder Bauernstube und wurde am 23. August 1898 von Georg Maria Eckert bei einer Sammlungsreise durch das damalige Bezirksamt Tauberbischofsheim angekauft.Rahmenuhr, geschlossenes Holzgehäuse, in das ein rundes Uhrwerk aus Messing und Stahl eingesetzt ist. Emaillezifferblatt unter Glas und Messingrahmen, eingefasst von grün-rotem, hölzernen Profilrahmen. In den vier Ecken des hellgrünen Schildes goldfarbene Rosetten aus Stuck, unter dem Blatt ein weißes Oval, blau eingefasst. Um das Schild tiefer Profilrahmen in Grün, Blau und Rot. Bemalung mit Rankenmustern mit weißen Kelchblüten. Auf der Rückwand findet sich ein bedruckter Papierstreifen mit Adresse des Herstellers: "Joseph Steiner, Uhrmacher, Johannitergasse 4. Nr. 116".Dieses Objekt ist Bestandteil der Sammlung Eckert des Badischen Landesmuseums.
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Historical context
Precision & Scientific Horology (1750 – 1850)
Harrison solves longitude; Mudge invents the lever; Breguet's Paris workshop defines the modern watch.
The age of the deadbeat escapement, compensated pendulums and observatory regulators. Domestic clocks spread through the middle classes: English longcase and bracket clocks, French gilt-bronze mantel clocks, Viennese Biedermeier wall clocks, Black Forest painted-shield clocks, and the first American shelf clocks.
Read the period in the timelineMore clocks from this periodEarlier: Early Modern Horology
Atlas type guide
Regulators, wall and Vienna clocks
A regulator is a precision pendulum clock used as a time standard in observatories, workshops and railway offices. Typical features are a deadbeat or Graham escapement, a temperature-compensated pendulum (mercury jar, gridiron or later invar), maintaining power and a regulator dial that separates hours, minutes and seconds. George Graham's deadbeat escapement (c. 1715) and his mercury pendulum, together with Harrison's gridiron, set the pattern for two centuries.
Wall clocks span a much wider range: the elegant Viennese Laterndluhr and Dachluhr of the Biedermeier period, the Dutch stoelklok and staartklok, English 'dial' clocks used in schools, offices and railway stations, and mass-produced spring and weight wall clocks from Germany (Gustav Becker, Junghans, Kienzle) and America.
What to look for
- Deadbeat escapement and compensated pendulum (gridiron rods, mercury jar or wood rod).
- A regulator dial with a large central minute hand and separate hour and seconds dials.
- Vienna regulators: glazed cases, slender pendulum, small weights, enamel two-piece dials.
- German factory trademarks stamped on the backplate (e.g. Gustav Becker anchor and crown, Junghans star).
Dating clues
- Graham-type deadbeat regulators: from c. 1720.
- Viennese Laterndluhr: c. 1800–1850.
- German factory 'Vienna-style' regulators: c. 1870–1930; Gustav Becker serial numbers allow close dating.
General guidance written by the Atlas editors about this kind of object. It is not a statement about this particular piece; for that, rely on the source record above and on physical examination.
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