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LATE 18TH CENTURY
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A Dutch mahogany musical longcase clock
Late 18th Century
The case with a panelled plinth with cut-corners and canted angles, on square tapering feet, the panelled trunk door with cut-corners and a gilt-metal mount, the hood with turned columns with gilt-metal capitals, later sound frets to the frieze, sides and caddy-top and with an arched moulded broken dentilled cornice, the concave moulded caddy-top with four later figural finials, the dial with Roman chapters and Arabic numerals on the silvered chapter ring, pierced black painted steel hands, the matted and engraved centre with silvered seconds, month, weekday and day sectors, surmounted by two silvered roundels for speelen/niet speelen and slaan/niet slaan, a rolling moonphase and silvered tune selector in the arch, the six pillar movement with a 11.5cm long brass cilinder playing with seventeen hammers on nine bells above, and with Dutch strike on two bells, restorations
269cm. high
Late 18th Century
The case with a panelled plinth with cut-corners and canted angles, on square tapering feet, the panelled trunk door with cut-corners and a gilt-metal mount, the hood with turned columns with gilt-metal capitals, later sound frets to the frieze, sides and caddy-top and with an arched moulded broken dentilled cornice, the concave moulded caddy-top with four later figural finials, the dial with Roman chapters and Arabic numerals on the silvered chapter ring, pierced black painted steel hands, the matted and engraved centre with silvered seconds, month, weekday and day sectors, surmounted by two silvered roundels for speelen/niet speelen and slaan/niet slaan, a rolling moonphase and silvered tune selector in the arch, the six pillar movement with a 11.5cm long brass cilinder playing with seventeen hammers on nine bells above, and with Dutch strike on two bells, restorations
269cm. high
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