Table clock
Also titled Tafelklok
c. 1700 - c. 1725
- Medium
- tortoise shell, textile materials, wood (plant material), silver (metal), brass (alloy), oak (wood)
- Classification
- mechanical clock
- Dimensions
- height 50 cm x width 26.3 cm x depth 28.8 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
This clock not only tells the time, it also gives the date and the phases of the sun and the moon. It has a movement with nine bells that can play ten melodies. In the early 18th century a timepiece with so many different functions was still a rare and precious object.
