Window mode follows your eyes with your camera, in this browser only: no picture or position leaves your device.
Clock Case
Also titled Pendulekast
Matthijs Horrix (Krefeld, 1735–1809)
c. 1780
- Medium
- beech (wood), mahogany (wood), maple (wood), walnut (hardwood), lacquer (coating), olive (wood), linden, elm (wood), yew (wood), alder (wood), rosewood (wood), oak (wood)
- Classification
- pendulekast
- Dimensions
- height 149.5 cm x width 75 cm x depth 50 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Rijksmuseum-Stichting
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia commissioned this case to house a special clock given to her by her uncle, King Frederick the Great. Horrix designed the case in the shape of a Chinese pagoda and veneered it with 17th-century Japanese lacquer. Wilhelmina placed this clock case in her bedroom in the Stadtholder’s residence in The Hague.<br>
