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| Horizontal tableclocks from the first half of the 17th century are rare examples of domestic clocks from the Dutch Renaissance. |
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| Boxclocks by Boekelts, Coster and Oosterwijck |
Following on from Bavarian examples, beautiful horizontal table clocks were manufactured in The Netherlands around 1650. These boxclocks have a verge and are driven by a spring. Some examples of boxclocks are signed by the Haarlem clockmaker Janse Boekelts (Collection Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam) and Salomon Coster and the clockmaker Severyn Oosterwijck from The Hague (Collection Vehmeyer). A boxclock by Egbert Jansen (Leeuwarden/Utrecht) is described in literature.
Sources: C. Spierdijk: Klokken en klokkenmakers (Amsterdam 1967); R. Plomp: Spring-Driven Dutch Clocks 1657-1710 (Schiedam 1979); A.A. de Boer: Uurwerken (Haarlem 1980); H.M. Vehmeyer: Antieke uurwerken: Een familieverzameling (Houten 1994)
Illustrations:
1) Boxclock J.J. Boekelts (RMA)
2) Movement boxclock J.J. Boekelts (RMA)
3) Boxclock S. Coster (Coll. Vehmeyer) |
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