Automaton in the Form of a Galley
dated 1626 | Georg Burrer
The belly of this warship contains a mechanism that rolls the galley over the table and causes the chained prisoners to row. The ship and its crew, carefully executed down to the finest details, was made in Stuttgart by two ivory turners and a clockmaker, whose names are conveyed by a contemporary slip of parchment inside the galley.
The belly of this warship contains a mechanism that rolls the galley over the table and causes the chained prisoners to row. The ship and its crew, carefully executed down to the finest details, was made in Stuttgart by two ivory turners and a clockmaker, whose names are conveyed by a contemporary slip of parchment inside the galley.
Artist:
Georg Burrer , (Drechselarbeit) (tätig in Stuttgart 1598/99 - 1627) DNB
Time:
dated 1626
Object Name
Automaton; ivory carving; turnery
Culture
Stuttgart
Material/technology:
Ivory, brass, linen, silk, iron
Dimensions:
51,5 cm × 84 cm × 33,5 cm
Signed
laut Pergamentzettel
Inscribed
"Georg Borrer von Stuggardt, Georg Ernst von Winsheim, Irer beidt Arweidt 1626" bzw. "Christ Schorkfel Urmacher Von Stuggart"
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Kunstkammer
Invs.
Kunstkammer, 4913