WALL CLOCK ON A BRACKET Daniel Soeterik Dordrecht Circa 1745 Holland

Console Clock

M&R54

WALL CLOCK ON A BRACKET
Signed: Daniel Soeterik Dordrecht
Circa 1745
Dordrecht, Holland

Movement
The spring-driven, eight-day double fusee movement is constructed between plates and has verge escapement with short pendulum. It has Dutch striking on two bells differing in pitch, regulated by a rack and snail.

Dial
The shaped brass dial has a silvered chapter ring with Roman hour, half-hour, quarter-hour, five-minute and minute divisions. The minute ring has typically Dutch arches. The time is indicated by a fine air of pierced blued-steel hands. The matted and engraved centre has a date aperture above the VI. The maker has signed the clock at the bottom of the chapter ring, Daniel Soeterik DORDRECHT. The moon phase and moon date are indicated in the air. The silvered humps are beautifully engraved depicting the Biblical story of “Abraham and Sarah” and “Hagar and Ismael”.

Case
The shaped and arched mahogany case has a glazed shaped door on the front, the door being embellished by Rococo carvings, surmounted by a cresting. The side of the clocks as well as the similarly shaped and embellished bracket have shaped recessed panels. The top of the case has a sound hole behind the cresting, covered by silk. On the right-hand side is a cord with which the door can be opened.

Duration: 1 week
Height: 67 cm.
Width: 30 cm.
Depth: 18 cm.

Literature
E. Morpurgo, Nederlandse klokken- en horlogemakers vanaf 1300, Amsterdam, 1970, p.116.

The maker
Daniel Soeterik was a master watchmaker and inventor and born in Dordrecht. He was married with Maria van Breda and mainly active as a clock and watchmaker in Dordrecht. In the year 1709, he advised in the newspaper that he invented a water mill to drain the estates on the river, it called a Rosmolen. He settled in Leiden around 1750.

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