BY PIETER VISBACH, THE HAGUE, CIRCA 1670-1685

细节

A Dutch ebony striking bracket clock
By Pieter Visbach, The Hague, circa 1670-1685
The case with arched pediment, the hinged velvet covered dial with silvered chapter ring with Roman chapters and Arabic numerals and half hour markers, silvered hinged plaque inscribed Pieter Visbach/Haghe flanked by scrolling foliage, the single barrel movement with verge escapement and outside countwheel strike on bell, the silk suspended pendulum lacking cycloidal cheeks, the backplate signed Pieter Visbach Hague, on bun feet, pendulum replaced, the bell probably re-positioned
32.5cm. high x 23.5cm. wide x 11cm. deep
See illustration

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拍品专文

Pieter Visbagh or Visbach (1634 - 1722) was one of the most important clockmakers of his time in the Hague together with Johannes van Ceulen. He was a pupil of Salomon Coster. It was Coster to whom Constantijn Huygens gave the sole right to produce the clock with pendulum. Huygens was the first to produce a working mechanism for the movement with pendulum, and Coster built the first clock with this new mechanism in 1657.
After a short period working in Middelburg Visbach took over Coster's workplace in 1660 following Coster's death. Visbach continued in the traditions of Huygens and Coster.
The present clock with a single drum driving both the movement and the hammer is typical of movements made before 1685. Around 1685 French protestant refugees introduced the twin barrel movement from Paris, with one barrel to drive the movement and a seperate barrel to drive the hammer.