Clock

The presented type of clock owes its name to the wide, decorative casing. The round hour dial with inscribed Roman numerals is encircled by a thick, carved wreath and set in an ornate frame. Below the dial, in the plate, there is also a decorative hole that allows the clockwork to be controlled. The entire plate is set in a kind of cabinet with glazed doors. Such clocks enjoyed great popularity in the 1st half of the 19th century in Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Hungary; they were also made by Warsaw clockmakers. The prototypes for this form of casing were, it seems, wall clocks made in Germany, whose decorative brass dials with overlaid, engraved, or embossed and polished ornamentation were set in profiled square or hexagonal frames with edges pressed into distinctive waves or pearls. Depictions of frame clocks appeared in advertisments placed in Galician newspapers, advertising Viennese exhibitions and shops offering frame clocks for sale.