Stoelklok
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
c. 1785 - c. 1800
Stoelklok, with an oak stool (bracket), painted dark green with colored leaf and flower motifs. On a console at the bottom rests a stool with turned legs. Decorations on lead.
The iron movement case has two doors with glass panes on the sides. Green leaf motifs and a landscape with houses are painted on the copper dial. Furthermore, decorated gilded lead plates with shell, strapwork, vases, bird motifs, and on the sides mermaids with foliage against a checkered background. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as BK-18835; its record gives material recorded as lead (metal), iron (metal), cardboard, wood (plant material), glass, oak (wood); technique painting technique, gild; measurements height 64 cm x width 31 cm x depth 25.5 cm.
Description translated from the museum's Dutch catalogue text; details are those of this museum object, and how far it represents a wider type has not been independently verified.
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- Catalogue references
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- lead (metal), iron (metal), cardboard, wood (plant material), glass, oak (wood)
- Technique
- painting technique, gild
- Dimensions
- hoogte 64 cm x breedte 31 cm x diepte 25,5 cm · height 64 cm x width 31 cm x depth 25.5 cm
- Measurements
- height 64 cm x width 31 cm x depth 25.5 cm
Identification
- Original title
- Stoelklok
- Holding institution
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Museum object number
- BK-18835
- Museum classification
- mechanical clock · furniture · clock
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
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