Lot Essay
Laurens Rupert I is active circa 1760 in Amsterdam.
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BY LAURENS RUPERT, AMSTERDAM, SECOND HALF 18TH CENTURY
Details
A Dutch burr walnut automaton longcase clock with strike and alarm
By Laurens Rupert, Amsterdam, second half 18th Century
The scally banded case with canted angles and a bomb-shaped plinth inlaid with a basket of flowers, on claw-and-ball feet, the rectangular trunk door with hollowed corners and inlaid with flower sprays, with a glazed lenticle, overlaid with a bronzed metal mount with Father Time, the hood with later sound frets and acanthus clasp, the partly later concave moulded top with carved giltwood figural finials, the dial signed Laurens Rupert Amsterdam on the silvered chapter ring with roman and arabic chapters, pierced steel hands, the matted centre with ringed winding holes and silvered seconds ring, with apertures for the days of the week and for the months with their corresponding dieties, with date aperture, and with a moonphase with painted rolling moon, foliate pierced gilt metal spandrels, surmounted by an arch painted with a town view, centred by a maritime scene with automaton sailing vessels floating on the waves, the four pillar movement with anchor escapement and Dutch strike on two bells, restorations
295cm. high
By Laurens Rupert, Amsterdam, second half 18th Century
The scally banded case with canted angles and a bomb-shaped plinth inlaid with a basket of flowers, on claw-and-ball feet, the rectangular trunk door with hollowed corners and inlaid with flower sprays, with a glazed lenticle, overlaid with a bronzed metal mount with Father Time, the hood with later sound frets and acanthus clasp, the partly later concave moulded top with carved giltwood figural finials, the dial signed Laurens Rupert Amsterdam on the silvered chapter ring with roman and arabic chapters, pierced steel hands, the matted centre with ringed winding holes and silvered seconds ring, with apertures for the days of the week and for the months with their corresponding dieties, with date aperture, and with a moonphase with painted rolling moon, foliate pierced gilt metal spandrels, surmounted by an arch painted with a town view, centred by a maritime scene with automaton sailing vessels floating on the waves, the four pillar movement with anchor escapement and Dutch strike on two bells, restorations
295cm. high