Table clock
Also titled Tafelklok
Nicolaas Weylandt (died 1756)
c. 1730 - c. 1750
- Medium
- tortoise shell, textile materials, silver (metal), pear (wood), brass (alloy), oak (wood)
- Classification
- mechanical clock
- Dimensions
- height 30.1 cm x width 14.1 cm x depth 9.3 cm x weight 3338 g
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Koninklijk Oudheidkundig Genootschap
- 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 lavishly executed case testifies to the great value that collectors and art lovers attached to ingeniously made clocks. The silver musical instruments on the sides of the clockcase - a lute, a violin, trumpets - allude to the various melodies the movement can play. Nicolaas Weylandt was one of Amsterdams best-known clockmakers.
