AN UNUSUAL DUTCH GILT BRASS SPRING-DRIVEN HOODED WALL CLOCK T. THOMSEN, AMSTERDAM, THIRD QUARTER OF THE 18th CENTURY The rectangular four baluster pillar twin going barrel outside countwheel bell striking movement with five-wheel trains and anchor escapement for regulation by a disc-bob pendulum, the 12 inch brass break-arch dial with matted centre within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with scroll engraved half hour markers and Arabic five minutes beyond the arcaded minute track, the lower margin signed T'S THOMSEN, AMSTERDAM, within further generous outer ring engraved with compass rose cardinal points annotated in Dutch N, NO, O, ZO, Z, ZW, W and NW and divided into thirty-two increments, with scroll pierced steel hour and minute hands and pictorial panel-centred scroll pierced cast gilt brass spandrels to angles, the shallow arch with pierced oval silvered monogram panel RWR flanked by conforming rococo scroll mounts, the movement and dial supported via four substantial horizontal posts secured to the backplate via latches onto a brass break-arch panel forming the rear of the case, with lift-off break-arch hood incorporating shallow cavetto cornice and slender rounded angles to the hinged glazed front panel, the right hand side with small pendulum access door, the inverted ogee-shaped base forming a mounded-edge rectangular table for the hood over shaped panels within slender corner mouldings and terminating with a concave-sided pendant, (pendulum lacking). 59cm (23.25ins) high excluding hanging eye, 33cm (13ins) wide, 12.5cm (5ins) deep. Thomas Thomsen is recorded in Morpurgo, Enrico Nederlands Klokken - en Horlogemakers Vanaf 1300 as a prominent clockmaker working in Amsterdam circa 1760. He was probably the father of T. Thomson who later lived and worked from 177 Achterburgwal, Amsterdam. A fine walnut quarter-striking astronomical longcase clock by Thomas Thomsen was sold at Christies, London sale of MAGNIFICENT CLOCKS 15th September 2004 (lot 36) for £94,850. The provision of compass rose cardinal points within the outer margin of the chapter ring of the present clock is an unusual and enigmatic feature. The purpose of this is unknown but would suggest that the timepiece was possibly originally conceived to provide an indication of wind direction through to mechanical connection to an external weathervane driving a third hand. Although there is no obvious direct evidence of such a mechanism being incorporated there are a few small spare holes to the both the movement and case which may support this theory.
AN UNUSUAL DUTCH GILT BRASS SPRING-DRIVEN HOODED WALL CLOCK T. THOMSEN, AMSTERDAM, THIRD QUARTER OF THE 18th CENTURY The rectangular four baluster pillar twin going barrel outside countwheel bell striking movement with five-wheel trains and anchor escapement for regulation by a disc-bob pendulum, the 12 inch brass break-arch dial with matted centre within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with scroll engraved half hour markers and Arabic five minutes beyond the arcaded minute track, the lower margin signed T'S THOMSEN, AMSTERDAM, within further generous outer ring engraved with compass rose cardinal points annotated in Dutch N, NO, O, ZO, Z, ZW, W and NW and divided into thirty-two increments, with scroll pierced steel hour and minute hands and pictorial panel-centred scroll pierced cast gilt brass spandrels to angles, the shallow arch with pierced oval silvered monogram panel RWR flanked by conforming rococo scroll mounts, the movement and dial supported via four substantial horizontal posts secured to the backplate via latches onto a brass break-arch panel forming the rear of the case, with lift-off break-arch hood incorporating shallow cavetto cornice and slender rounded angles to the hinged glazed front panel, the right hand side with small pendulum access door, the inverted ogee-shaped base forming a mounded-edge rectangular table for the hood over shaped panels within slender corner mouldings and terminating with a concave-sided pendant, (pendulum lacking). 59cm (23.25ins) high excluding hanging eye, 33cm (13ins) wide, 12.5cm (5ins) deep. Thomas Thomsen is recorded in Morpurgo, Enrico Nederlands Klokken - en Horlogemakers Vanaf 1300 as a prominent clockmaker working in Amsterdam circa 1760. He was probably the father of T. Thomson who later lived and worked from 177 Achterburgwal, Amsterdam. A fine walnut quarter-striking astronomical longcase clock by Thomas Thomsen was sold at Christies, London sale of MAGNIFICENT CLOCKS 15th September 2004 (lot 36) for £94,850. The provision of compass rose cardinal points within the outer margin of the chapter ring of the present clock is an unusual and enigmatic feature. The purpose of this is unknown but would suggest that the timepiece was possibly originally conceived to provide an indication of wind direction through to mechanical connection to an external weathervane driving a third hand. Although there is no obvious direct evidence of such a mechanism being incorporated there are a few small spare holes to the both the movement and case which may support this theory.
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