A DUTCH MUSICAL LONGCASE CLOCK, the walnut veneered case with bombé plinth inlaid with flower-sprays, a vase of flowers and a bird, the shaped trunck door with cast lenticle of Father Time, the shaped hood with openworked frets and rocaille bracket surmounted by Atlas, Mercury and herald finials, the dial painted with four seasons surmounted by an automaton with ships in the arch, the matted centre with moon, day and date aperture, the silvered dial signed Nicolaas Weylandt Amsterdam, the eight days five pillar movement with rack strike playing nine tunes on sixteen bells with a 28 cm musical cylinder

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A DUTCH MUSICAL LONGCASE CLOCK, the walnut veneered case with bombé plinth inlaid with flower-sprays, a vase of flowers and a bird, the shaped trunck door with cast lenticle of Father Time, the shaped hood with openworked frets and rocaille bracket surmounted by Atlas, Mercury and herald finials, the dial painted with four seasons surmounted by an automaton with ships in the arch, the matted centre with moon, day and date aperture, the silvered dial signed Nicolaas Weylandt Amsterdam, the eight days five pillar movement with rack strike playing nine tunes on sixteen bells with a 28 cm musical cylinder
305 cm high
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