a dutch walnut longcase clock

BY JAN BREUKELAAR, AMSTERDAM

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a dutch walnut longcase clock
By Jan Breukelaar, Amsterdam
The case on shaped feet, rectangular plinth with shaped canted angles, oval lenticle to the shaped trunk door, arched hood with pierced frieze and side frets and surmounted by Atlas and herald figures, the arched dial with silvered chapter-ring with roman chapters and arabic numerals, the matted centre with subsidiary seconds, date aperture and alarm-ring and signed Jan Breukelaar, Amsterdam, moonphase with month aperture in the arch, pierced foliate spandrels, the eight-day four-pillar movement with rack-strike on two bells, restorations
257cm. high

Lot Essay

Jan Breukelaar (1738-after 1790), took over the atelier of Antony van Oostrum (?-1768) in the Grote Kattenburgstraat in Amsterdam on 20 February 1768, which had been based there since ca. 1740.
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