A DUTCH WALNUT MUSICAL LONGCASE CLOCK, the scaly-banded case on bun feet, bombé plinth, shaped lenticle with a figure of Father Time to the shaped trunk door, arched hood with foliate bracket and pierced frieze and side frets, caddy top with Atlas and herald figures, the arched dial signed Daniel Perrin Amsterdam, with moon phase, silvered chapter ring with roman and arabic numerals, the matted centre with subsidiary seconds, date aperture, month and weekday sectors, pierced foliate spandrels with male masks and with subsidiary silvered rings with floral painted centres for slaan/niet slaan and spelen/niet spelen, the arch with tune indication, the eight day five pillar movement with rack strike on one bell and playing twelve airs on a 20 cm brass cylinder and thirteen bells, 18th Century
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A DUTCH WALNUT MUSICAL LONGCASE CLOCK, the scaly-banded case on bun feet, bombé plinth, shaped lenticle with a figure of Father Time to the shaped trunk door, arched hood with foliate bracket and pierced frieze and side frets, caddy top with Atlas and herald figures, the arched dial signed Daniel Perrin Amsterdam, with moon phase, silvered chapter ring with roman and arabic numerals, the matted centre with subsidiary seconds, date aperture, month and weekday sectors, pierced foliate spandrels with male masks and with subsidiary silvered rings with floral painted centres for slaan/niet slaan and spelen/niet spelen, the arch with tune indication, the eight day five pillar movement with rack strike on one bell and playing twelve airs on a 20 cm brass cylinder and thirteen bells, 18th Century
292 cm high
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Daniel Perrin active circa 1742.
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