Wall clock, with an upwardly tapering backboard capped by a pediment
Also known as: Wandklok, met een zich aan de bovenzijde verjongend, door een timpaan gedekt blad
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
c. 1690
Wall clock, veneered with ebony on an oak core. On the upwardly tapering backboard, capped by a pediment, the solid ebony brackets are mounted. They are designed as crouching, nude figures upon which the four Tuscan corner columns stand.
The columns support an entablature with a segmental pediment. The brass dial is set on an underlay of black cloth between cast brass cherubs as corner pieces and a festoon at the bottom. In an oval with a laurel wreath appears the pendulum bob depicting a bird perched on a fruit basket. Surmounting the bell is Atlas. Brass weights on cords. Marked on the dial: Jan Kopies, Westzanen. The sphere of Atlas is a later addition.
The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as BK-NM-3451; its record gives material recorded as iron (metal), ebony (wood), wood (plant material), velvet (fabric weave), brass (alloy), glass, oak (wood); measurements height 76 cm x width 34 cm x depth 23 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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Physical characteristics
- Material
- iron (metal), ebony (wood), wood (plant material), velvet (fabric weave), brass (alloy), glass, oak (wood)
- Dimensions
- hoogte 76 cm x breedte 34 cm x diepte 23 cm · height 76 cm x width 34 cm x depth 23 cm
- Measurements
- height 76 cm x width 34 cm x depth 23 cm
Identification
- Original title
- Wandklok, met een zich aan de bovenzijde verjongend, door een timpaan gedekt blad
- Holding institution
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Museum object number
- BK-NM-3451
- Museum classification
- clockwork · wall clocks · mechanical clock · clock · furniture
Catalogue references
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Research required
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