A good late 17th century Dutch gilt metal mounted ebony double basket top table clock with pull quarter repeat and Dutch striking
S. Van Leeuwen, Amsterdam
The large cast brass cherub handle framed by small urn finials over the gilt double basket and four larger finials on the intricately moulded top, above glazed sides, front and back doors, the doors with complex gilt brass mounts, on a moulded base with block feet.
The 6.75 inch square brass dial with winged cherub spandrels framing the signed silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with lozenge half-quarter marks, the finely matted centre with chamfered and engraved mock pendulum and date apertures, the ringed winding holes below pierced blued steel hands.
The twin gut fusee movement with knife-edge verge escapement, the plates united by five ringed and knopped pillars, striking the Dutch system on the half hours and full hour on two bells and hammers, repeating the quarters on a run of six bells and hammers, the back plate with floral engraving. Ticking, striking, and pull repeating. With two case keys and a crank key.
26cm wide x 17cm deep x 46cm high, (10in wide x 6 1/2in deep x 18in high)
Footnotes:
Literature
R. Plomp, Spring-driven Dutch pendulum clocks 1657-1710, Schiedam: Interbook International B.V., 1979, pp.156-7.

Further accompanied by a full description by Hans Kreft, dated November 1985.
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