Lot 541
  • 541

A Dutch burr walnut musical longcase clock, Heert. C. Bakker en Soon Groningen, last quarter 18th century

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 EUR
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Description

  • height 280cm including atlas
35.5-cm engraved brass dial, engraved silvered chapter ring with Roman numerals, subsidiaries for play/not play, tune selection and seconds, engraved signature plaque signed Heert. C. Bakker en Soon Groningen, apertures for day, date, month and moonphase, foliate pierced spandrels, three train anchor movement with rack Dutch half hour striking and playing one of four tunes with 17 hammers on 9 bells, burr walnut veneered case with bell top surmounted by a giltwood atlas and two angels, moulded cornice with carved ornament and pierced frets above and below, break arch glazed door with brass capped columns, canted trunk, long shaped door with Chronos lenticle and string inlaid banding, bombed base with similar inlay raised on claw feet