A DUTCH EBONY AND EBONIZED SILVER-GILT STRIKING 'HAAGSE' CLOCK

BY JOHANNES VAN CEULEN, THE HAGUE, CIRCA 1695

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A DUTCH EBONY AND EBONIZED SILVER-GILT STRIKING 'HAAGSE' CLOCK
BY JOHANNES VAN CEULEN, THE HAGUE, CIRCA 1695
With engraved pierced silver chapter ring and hands, the front plaque and movement signed Johannis Van Ceulen Inden Haghe, countwheel on back plate, strike to bell, single-train movement with tandem barrel, verge escapement and silk suspension
13½ in. (34 cm.) high

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According to label:
Fredrick VI, King of Denmark and Norway.
Gifted by the above to Drevinde Dannemand, (his mistress).
Gifted by the above to Froken Byboe.
By descent to E. Berg, Odense, Denmark.
By descent to Knud Baagoe, Svendborg, Denmark.

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It has been suggested that this clock may date from the 1660's and was later updated by Van Ceulen.

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Johannes van Ceulen (1656-1715) was one of the most capable and prolific clockmakers in the late 17th/early 18th century in the Hague, as discussed in R. Plomp, Spring-driven Dutch Pendulum Clocks 1657-1710, Schiedam, 1979, pp. 88-107. He is first mentioned in the Hague in 1676 and became a citizen in 1677, when he bought a house opposite that of Christian Huygens, for whom he made a planetarium (now in the Museum Boerhave, Leiden) and two clocks which attempted to determine longitude at sea. Two clocks of related design, though with brass rather than silver fittings, were sold Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 25 May 2004, lot 172 (16,589 Euros) and Christie's, Amsterdam, 19 December 2007, lot 483 (33,600 Euros).