Table clock Table clock, Table clock glued with turtle on walnut core. It rests on articulated flat silver feet, has a profiled skirting board and a cushion-shaped crown with a silver handle. The door is arched at the top in the shape of a bow. The silver dial has female figures in the corners, symbolizing the four continents, and in the arc acanthus vines with instruments on either side of a solar and monthly position. The brass hands are cut open and gilded. In the middle an indication of day and date and on a cartouche, surrounded by openwork acanthus vines, the signature N. Weylandt Amsterdam. The sides have arched cut-out openings at the top, showing silver fillings with acanthus vines, a dolphin and trophies of musical instruments on a base of green fabric. The clock plays different tunes. At the rear a door as at the front, through which a part of the timepiece and the engraved back plate, which is also provided with the signature, is visible, ornament derived from plant forms, violin, fiddle, full moon represented as face, N. Weylandt, Amsterdam, c. 1730 - c. 1750, oak (wood), pear (wood), silver (metal), brass (alloy), textile materials, gilding, h 30.1 cm × w 14.1 cm × d 9.3 cm × w 3338 gr
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