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Lot Essay
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Jaap Zeeman, De Nederlandse Staande Klok, Zwolle, 1996
A musical longcase clock by Vermeulen of closely related design is in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, reference BK-1969-102-A (see Zeeman, op. cit., figs.71-71a).
Andries Vermeulen (1680-1752) came from Emmerik. He is listed in the Register of Good Men in 1716 and is recorded in Amsterdam in 1721. In 1726 he had a workshop in The Kalverstraat, later moving to The Huidenstraat. He was the brother of another clockmaker, Bartholomeus Vermeulen, who had a workshop in the Keizerstraat.
Longcase clocks by Andries Vermeulen have been sold Sotheby's Amsterdam, Clocks, Watches and Wristwatches, 12 December 2006, lot 178 and 14 December 2005, lot 149; a musical longcase was sold Christie's Amsterdam, Clocks, Furniture and Works of Art from the Venema Collection, 5-6 September 2006, lot 197. Another musical clock by Andries Vermeulen is in the National Museum, Utrecht.
Although boulle-work inlays are predominantly found on French clocks in the early part of the 18th Century, such decoration is not exclusively French, the 'boulle Tompion' possibly being the most famous non-French example of a boulle clock case.
Jaap Zeeman, De Nederlandse Staande Klok, Zwolle, 1996
A musical longcase clock by Vermeulen of closely related design is in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, reference BK-1969-102-A (see Zeeman, op. cit., figs.71-71a).
Andries Vermeulen (1680-1752) came from Emmerik. He is listed in the Register of Good Men in 1716 and is recorded in Amsterdam in 1721. In 1726 he had a workshop in The Kalverstraat, later moving to The Huidenstraat. He was the brother of another clockmaker, Bartholomeus Vermeulen, who had a workshop in the Keizerstraat.
Longcase clocks by Andries Vermeulen have been sold Sotheby's Amsterdam, Clocks, Watches and Wristwatches, 12 December 2006, lot 178 and 14 December 2005, lot 149; a musical longcase was sold Christie's Amsterdam, Clocks, Furniture and Works of Art from the Venema Collection, 5-6 September 2006, lot 197. Another musical clock by Andries Vermeulen is in the National Museum, Utrecht.
Although boulle-work inlays are predominantly found on French clocks in the early part of the 18th Century, such decoration is not exclusively French, the 'boulle Tompion' possibly being the most famous non-French example of a boulle clock case.