Lot 3
Dutch Burl Walnut and Inlaid Eight-day Musical Longcase Clock, Jan Christian Sauer, Amsterdam, c. 1765,
26 March – 5 April 2023, 12:00 EDT
Skinner Marlborough, MassachusettsSold for US$35,655 inc. premium
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Dutch Burl Walnut and Inlaid Eight-day Musical Longcase Clock,
Jan Christian Sauer, Amsterdam, c. 1765,
the caddy-top case with carved and gilded finials depicting two heralding angels and Atlas holding the world, blind fret around the cornice and sides, engaged three-quarter columns flank the composite brass dial with silvered Roman numeral arcaded chapter ring, engraved center, blued-steel hands, cast brass spandrels, "strike-no strike" and "play-no play," subsidiary dials, tune selection above the moon's phase in the arch reading "Mars, Minuet, Marquis de Jenare, Almande, Minuet Wilburg, Waarom Verlaatie Myn, Cottilion, Country Dance, Country Dance, Air, Mars" with painted figures of young men playing the violin and flute below, day-of-the month and week silvered subsidiary dials, full-length waist door with cast brass pendulum aperture, lower bombe section with line and marquetry all on ball feet, eight-day time, strike, and musical seven-pillar movement with a nest of thirteen bells and twenty-five hammers, mounted above the 11 1/2-in. long pin cylinder playing twelve tunes, single additional larger bell for striking, three brass-cased weights and pendulum.
the caddy-top case with carved and gilded finials depicting two heralding angels and Atlas holding the world, blind fret around the cornice and sides, engaged three-quarter columns flank the composite brass dial with silvered Roman numeral arcaded chapter ring, engraved center, blued-steel hands, cast brass spandrels, "strike-no strike" and "play-no play," subsidiary dials, tune selection above the moon's phase in the arch reading "Mars, Minuet, Marquis de Jenare, Almande, Minuet Wilburg, Waarom Verlaatie Myn, Cottilion, Country Dance, Country Dance, Air, Mars" with painted figures of young men playing the violin and flute below, day-of-the month and week silvered subsidiary dials, full-length waist door with cast brass pendulum aperture, lower bombe section with line and marquetry all on ball feet, eight-day time, strike, and musical seven-pillar movement with a nest of thirteen bells and twenty-five hammers, mounted above the 11 1/2-in. long pin cylinder playing twelve tunes, single additional larger bell for striking, three brass-cased weights and pendulum.
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Literature
Clock illustrated in the central hallway of the Thomas Poynton Ives House, Providence, Rhode Island, in Barbara Snow, "Living with Antiques: The Providence Home of Mrs. R. H. Ives Goddard," The Magazine Antiques 87/5 (May 1965): 581.
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