AN AUSTRIAN OAK CASED TABLE CLOCK WITH TRIP-HOUR REPEATKOTL, VIENNA, THIRD QUARTER OF THE 18th CENTURYThe four baluster-pillar twin standing barrel bell-striking movement with verge escapement and silk pendulum suspension, the 6 inch brass break-arch dial with vestigial alarm disc, concentric band decorated winding holes and scroll-bordered shaped false bob aperture to the matted centre within applied Roman numeral chapter ring with fleur-de-lys half hour markers, Arabic five minutes beyond the arcaded minute ring and signed Kotl, Wien to lower margin, with pierced steel hands and winged cherub mask spandrels to angles beneath arch centred with a Schlagt/Nicht Schlagt selection dial flanked by leafy scroll engraved infill, the case with elaborate scroll cast hinged carrying handle to the inverted bell-top superstructure with brass flambeau urn finials to angles, over front door applied with repeating leaf decorated gilt gesso surround to the glazed dial aperture and with scroll pierced and engraved upper quadrant frets enclosing conforming gilt border to the dial mask behind, the sides with lozenge-shaped apertures over break-arch windows and the rear with rectangular glazed door set within the frame of the case, on cavetto moulded skirt base with disc feet, (alarm mechanism removed).44cm (17.25ins) high with handle down, 28cm (11ins) wide, 16cm (6.25ins) deep.Antoni Kotl (junior) is recorded in Baillie, G.H. Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World as working in Vienna during the 18th century with a striking and repeating bracket clock by him residing in the Feill collection.