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This architectural form, painted with scenes from daily life and flowers, provided a focal point in the domestic interior. This example dates from the late 18th or early 19th century.  ","physicalDescription":"A rectangular case with side doors (now separate, but originally hinged and glazed) enclosing an iron movement with a bell at the top. With ornamental pierced cresting at the front and the sides, cast in lead, that at the front with a crowned coat of arms, a white swan on a red field, and those at the sides with an unidentified monogram. The dial plate is painted with a Dutch canal scene above and flowers (water lilies?) below. It is flanked by rampant lions cast in gilt lead (one is broken). All parts of the case are painted or gilt. The dial has a Roman chapter ring, and outer Arabic minute ring and brass hands, the hour hand with a brass pointer attached to the central alarm dial. Also rivetted to the case are further cast and gilded lead ornaments consisting of the armorial cresting above the arched wooden painted canopy and a pierced apron ornament attached to the dial plate below. The brackets which attach the clock to the wall are, like the frames to the side doors, painted with roses against an olive green ground. \n\nThe movement is supported by four balusters. The brass chain and pulleys with four weights (two cylindrical, two conical, one of lead the other of brass) are listed in the original registered description but have not yet been identified or correctly numbered.\n\nThe registered description has been annotated at a later date as follows 'Lead decoration broken partly repaired in museum when gilding was also partly renewed'. \n\n\n","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"brass","id":"AAT10946"},{"text":"wood","id":"AAT11914"},{"text":"paint","id":"AAT15029"},{"text":"lead","id":"AAT11022"}],"techniques":[{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"},{"text":"gilding","id":"AAT53789"},{"text":"","id":""}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Wooden frame with painted dial and surround supporting gilded metal cresting,  and iron movement","categories":[{"text":"Clocks & Watches","id":"THES48976"},{"text":"Scientific instruments","id":"THES49042"}],"styles":[{"text":"baroque","id":"AAT21147"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"MET","id":"THES48599"},"images":["2006BA1228","2013GE2475"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"004","id":"THES303522"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""},{"current":{"text":"004","id":"THES303522"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""},{"current":{"text":"004","id":"THES303522"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""},{"current":{"text":"004","id":"THES303522"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""},{"current":{"text":"004","id":"THES303522"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""},{"current":{"text":"MS (VA)","id":"THES49648"},"free":"","case":"24","shelf":"12","box":""},{"current":{"text":"004","id":"THES303522"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"clock","id":"AAT41575"}],[{"text":"door panel","id":""}],[{"text":"door panel","id":""}],[{"text":"panel","id":"AAT69079"}],[{"text":"fragment","id":"AAT117130"}],[{"text":"fragment","id":"AAT117130"}],[{"text":"fragment","id":"AAT117130"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"No","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Friesland","id":"x29766"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"Leeuwarden was the centre of clock production in Friesland and is particularly associated with the Stoel Klok"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1770-1830","earliest":"1770-01-01","latest":"1830-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"The Stoel Klok originated in Friesland in the early 18th century"}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Miss Frances M Rivers","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"17 1/4","unit":"in","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":"Dimension of clock"},{"dimension":"Width","value":"11.5","unit":"in","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":"Dimension of clock"},{"dimension":"Height","value":"22 7/8","unit":"in","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":"Dimension of bracket"},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"9.5","unit":"in","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"In the sixteenth century, the wall-mounted, weight-driven chamber clock became a relatively common type in the Low Countries (Holland and Flanders). By the early eighteenth century, particularly in Friesland, the brass dial and movement were sometimes set in a decorative case with cresting that included coats of arms and heraldic supporters indicating the status of the owner. Such clocks were known as 'Stoel Klok' (chair clock).  The imposing Stoelklok is distinguished by its elaborate cast fretwork crown adorned with a \"jewel\". The Dutch Stoelklok means \"Stool Clock\" or \"Seat Clock\" as the elaborately pillared movement sits firmly upon a chair-like wooden platform with a backboard and arched hood. \n\nThere are two armorial shields both with lion supporters on the cresting of the hood and the cresting above the dial; the lower painted coat of arms shows a swan on a red ground and may identify an earlier owner. \n\nThe clock was given to the V&amp;A in 1965 by Miss Frances M Rivers.\n\n","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Clock, wood, iron, lead and brass with painted decoration and gilded cast ornament, Dutch,  late 18th- early 19th century","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Dr J.L. Sellink, <i><i>Dutch antique domestic clocks</i></i> (1973)  NAL 208.Q.1;Jaap Zeeman, <i>The Dutch stool clock </i>(a popular regional style Dutch domestic wall clock) (1969) \r\nFor a similar clock see Britten's <u>Old Clocks and Watches</u>, 7th edition Plate 176                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         "}],"production":"Such clocks were known as Stoel Klok (chair clocks)","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["M.16:1-1965","M.16:3-1965","M.16:2-1965","M.16:5-1965","M.16:4-1965","M.16:6-1965","M.16:7-1965"],"accessionNumberNum":"16","accessionNumberPrefix":"M","accessionYear":1965,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE","Clock","Panel [2]","Panel [1]","Panel [3]","Fragment [1]","fragment [2]","fragment [3]"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-07-30","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-24","availableToBook":false}}