A Dutch ebonised bracket clock

BY STEVEN HOOGENDIJK, ROTTERDAM, MID 18TH CENTURY

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A Dutch ebonised bracket clock
By Steven Hoogendijk, Rotterdam, mid 18th Century
The case with brass handle to the inverted bell top with urn-shaped finials, later sound frets to the sides and on bun feet, the brass dial signed Steven Hoogendijk Rotterdam on a plaque in the matted centre, with alarm disc, date and false pendulum aperture, pierced black painted steel hands, mask-and-foliate spandrels, surmounted by a strike/silent ring in the arch, the four pillar twin fusee movement with verge escapement and with strike/alarm on one bell, the backplate engraved with an eagle above a fruit basket surrounded by scrolling foliage, the movement English, made for the Dutch market
49cm. high

拍品專文

Steven Hoogendijk was born in Rotterdam in 1698 as the son of Adriaan Hoogendijk and Elisabeth Tracy, both watchmakers, and as the grandson of Steven Tracy (1679-1703), also a well-known clock- and watchmaker and physicist. (Enrico Morpurgo, Nederlandse klokken- en horlogemakers vanaf 1300, Amsterdam, 1970, p. 60)
Circa 1724 he established himself as a clockmaker and later he also became architect of the city of Rotterdam. Hoogendijk stopped working as a clockmaker in 1768 to dedicate himself to his scientific work. In 1787 he constructed one of the first steam engines in the Netherlands. (J. Zeeman, De Nederlandse Staande Klok, Zwolle, 1996, pp. 236-238)

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