The Queen’s clock, part 2.
A large and rare Dutch musical table clock from the Dutch Royal collection.
The French ormolu mantel clock, production and technique in the 18th and 19th Century.
This article is based on a part of a lecture held in September 2017 here in our gallery in Amsterdam. In it the production process of the French ormolu mantel clock will be explained and which workmen were responsible for…
The developement of the French carriage clock, part 2.
This is the second and final part of my piece on French carrage clocks based on the lecture that was eld here in our shop in September 2016.
The development of the French carriage clock.
The clocks collection of Gude & Meis includes a wide range of carriage clocks. Therefore it seemed useful and fun to give a lecture on the development of these clocks. This article is the written version of this lecture which was…
The stylistic development of the Dutch longcase clock, part 1.
In November 2015 I held a lecture on the stylistic development of Dutch longcase clocks. Dutch in this case is not the whole of modern The Netherlands but only ‘the seven provinces’ with both South and North Holland the most…
Trouvaille. Mysterieuse.
Mystery clock, Although an antique clock is often a beautiful piece of art, its main function is to show time. Most commonly this is done by hands but there are exceptions to this, sometimes quite amusing. In this case the time…
