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An important and very rare late 18th century Dutch brass-mounted mahogany musical table clock with calendar, Dutch strike, planisphere dial and moonphase Rutgerus van Meurs image 1
An important and very rare late 18th century Dutch brass-mounted mahogany musical table clock with calendar, Dutch strike, planisphere dial and moonphase Rutgerus van Meurs image 2
An important and very rare late 18th century Dutch brass-mounted mahogany musical table clock with calendar, Dutch strike, planisphere dial and moonphase Rutgerus van Meurs image 3
An important and very rare late 18th century Dutch brass-mounted mahogany musical table clock with calendar, Dutch strike, planisphere dial and moonphase Rutgerus van Meurs image 4
An important and very rare late 18th century Dutch brass-mounted mahogany musical table clock with calendar, Dutch strike, planisphere dial and moonphase Rutgerus van Meurs image 5
An important and very rare late 18th century Dutch brass-mounted mahogany musical table clock with calendar, Dutch strike, planisphere dial and moonphase Rutgerus van Meurs image 6
An important and very rare late 18th century Dutch brass-mounted mahogany musical table clock with calendar, Dutch strike, planisphere dial and moonphase Rutgerus van Meurs image 7
An important and very rare late 18th century Dutch brass-mounted mahogany musical table clock with calendar, Dutch strike, planisphere dial and moonphase Rutgerus van Meurs image 8
Lot 79*

An important and very rare late 18th century Dutch brass-mounted mahogany musical table clock with calendar, Dutch strike, planisphere dial and moonphase
Rutgerus van Meurs

Amended
Cornelis Paulus van Pauwvliet: An Important Dutch Collection
21 November 2023, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £30,720 inc. premium

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An important and very rare late 18th century Dutch brass-mounted mahogany musical table clock with calendar, Dutch strike, planisphere dial and moonphase

Rutgerus van Meurs
The inverted bell top case surmounted by five facetted urn and acorn finials, with brass banding between, the canted angles set with boldly cast floral and berry mounts, side handles and elaborate pierced and engraved brass sound side frets, on a base with curled winged feet.
The 8 inch arched brass dial set with interlaced white enamel Roman and Arabic chapter rings, framed by small cast brass floral scrolls, the centre finely matted and engraved; a day of the week deity aperture above VI, a chamfered calendar aperture below XII, above the signature Rútgerús van Meúrs Amsterdam; framed by four subsidiary dials for Year 1-4 cycle, music selection (offering 8 tunes), play/not play and strike/not strike with elaborately pierced blued steel hands, a silvered astrological indicator and painted moonphase in the arch.
The substantial twin chain fusee movement with verge escapement, the plates united by eight knopped pillars, seven latched, the backplate with exterior fly, engraved Rutgerus Van Meurs Amsterdam, the 8 inch long pinned cylinder playing tunes on 18 bells and 25 hammers. Ticking. With a winding key and two case keys.
41cm wide x 29cm deep x 75cm high, (16in wide x 11in deep x 29 1/2in high)

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Provenance
Hans Kreft, Neerpelt, 1985.

Rutgerus van Meurs was born in Amsterdam in 1736 to Otto van Meurs and Elisabeth Potgieter. His father was also a horologist, and it is likely that Rutgerus was apprenticed to him. His workshop was in the Utrechtsestraat 143 and at some point he married Elisabeth Moret. Like his father, he made watches and longcase clocks, but Rutgerus was also one of the few Dutch horologists to make astronomical clocks, for which he is best remembered today. (See Amsterdam Horology (2020) Rutgerus van Meurs. Available at: http://www.amsterdamshorloge.nl/rutgerus-van-meurs.html)

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Please note that the case is not 18th century.

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