Table clock, c. 1600 - c. 1625

Small table clock of gilded copper. The small clock is square, rests on four ball feet, and has a profiled base and top moulding. Sound holes are provided on two corners.

The side walls there have an openwork, rectangular field with a vase in the centre, from which symmetrical leaf tendrils spring; above the vase a bird. The dial, mounted on the top plate, is decorated in the centre with engraved flowers and has a silver hour and minute ring with a small pointer hand. Single hand, alarm and date rings. In the spandrels engraved fruit with foliage. On the underside of the clock is a detachable plate, behind which is a space revealing the openwork balance cock decorated with acanthus leaf and facing swans.

The movement has a verge escapement and in one corner a stackfreed spring-force regulator. Signed above the balance cock on the right Jan Janse Boekelts Haerlem. The clock has an oak protective case veneered with tortoiseshell, with profiled base and top mouldings, pierced sides, a trap door at the bottom, and a glass plate on top. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as BK-1957-7; its record gives material recorded as tortoise shell, copper (metal), silver (metal), glass, oak (wood); technique gild, engraving; measurements height 6.8 cm x width 12 cm x depth 12 cm x height 5.3 cm x width 8.7 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.