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A DUTCH WALNUT AND FLORAL MARQUETRY STRIKING EIGHT DAY LONGCASE CLOCK WITH MOONPHASE AND ALARM
THE MOVEMENT BY ANDRIES VERMEULEN, AMSTERDAM. CIRCA 1750, THE CASE 19TH CENTURY
CASE: blind fret cornice to scroll top hood with brass Corinthian capitals to columns, trunk with canted angles, sides with bird, butterfly and floral inlay, conforming marquetry to the trunk door with lenticle, bombé plinth on paw feet DIAL: 12 in. wide brass dial with scroll and urn spandrels to silvered chapter ring with half hour markers, matted centre with subsidiary seconds, date square, alarm disc and scroll pierced cartouche signed 'A. VERMEULEN AMSTERDAM', dolphin spandrels to engraved arch with silvered moon with age of moon and high tide indications, strike/silent to III, blued steel hands MOVEMENT: with five ringed pillars, anchor escapement, rack Dutch strike on two bells, independent alarm train; pendulum, crank key
93¼ in (237 cm.) high; 24½ in. (62 cm.) wide; 12½ in. (32 cm.) deep
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