Longcase clock
Also titled Staande klok
c. 1780
- Medium
- maple (wood), gilding (material), wood (plant material), rosewood (wood), purpleheart (wood), linen (material), brass (alloy), glass, oak (wood)
- Classification
- mechanical clock
- Dimensions
- height 280 cm x width 63.5 cm x depth 32 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
The case of this clock is designed to resemble a Classical column, with the fluting (narrow, vertical grooves) rendered in marquetry. Above the clock face are a mechanism with moving ships and a painted view of Rotterdam. In 1780 the Rotterdam cabinetmaker Oerberg organized a lottery, in which he most likely put up this clock as a prize.
