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Longcase clock
Also titled Staande klok
c. 1755 - c. 1765
- Medium
- walnut (hardwood), looking glasses, gilding (material), wood (plant material), paint (coating), wortelnotenhout, linen (material), glass, oak (wood)
- Classification
- mechanical clock
- Dimensions
- height 311 cm x height 277 cm x width 51 cm x width 56 cm x depth 29.5 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
The cabinetmaker made the case of this longcase clock as narrow as possible. Moreover, he placed an irregularly shaped, asymmetrical mirror on its front to counterbalance, as it were, the clock’s straight, angular form.The clock has a movement with fourteen melodies, and it shows the date, day of the week, month, phases of the moon and time of high tide.
