100th Auction
2019/11/15
Lot 53
Pieter Visbach Fecit Haghe (The Hague), Height 330 mm, circa 1665
An important and early Dutch "pendule religieuse" in the Hague tradition - 8 days duration
Case: ebony and red tortoiseshell-veneered wood, moulded, windows to the sides, glazed front door flanked by pilasters, the front door locked on the right side with the square winding key, moulded arched pediment. Dial: hinged dial plate with applied gilt brass chapter ring with inlaid radial Roman hours set on a black velvet surround. Hinged repoussé signature plaque below covering an aperture for the controlling of the pendulum. Movm.: rectangular brass movement 145 x 77 mm, 1 barrel, verge escapement, cycloidal cheeks, silk suspended short pendulum.
Pieter Visbach, The Hague, also Visbagh (1634-1722) apprenticed to Salomon Coster in 1646; moved to Middelburg in 1652, where he probably worked with Adam Oosterwijck, Severijn's father. After Coster's death in 1659 he returned to The Hague and in 1660 took over the workshop from Coster's widow, accepting the obligation to keep on young Christiaan Reijnaert as an employee. One of the witnesses to this contract of sale was Jacobus van Leeuwarden, Jan Jacobzoon's father. Pieter Visbach was without question the most prominent clockmaker in The Hague until Johannes van Ceulen had become famous. Visbach first rented a house in Wagenstaat/Veerkade and bought it in 1671. He was the first master of the Clockmakers' Guild in The Hague, founded in 1688. His younger brother Geerlof was also a maker of Hague clocks; his son Frederick succeeded his father as keeper of the clock of Nieuwe Kerk in 1705.
Little is known about Visbach's years in Middelburg. There is no information on the location of his workshop and we do not know where, when and from whom Visbach learned to make Hague clocks.
Source: H.M. Vehmeyer, "Clocks: Their origin and development 1320-1880", Vol. II, Wilsele 2004, p. 1000.
This clock is illustrated and described in H.M. Vehmeyer, "Clocks: Their origin and development 1320-1880", vol. I, Wilsele 2004, pp. 298.
An important and early Dutch "pendule religieuse" in the Hague tradition - 8 days duration
Case: ebony and red tortoiseshell-veneered wood, moulded, windows to the sides, glazed front door flanked by pilasters, the front door locked on the right side with the square winding key, moulded arched pediment. Dial: hinged dial plate with applied gilt brass chapter ring with inlaid radial Roman hours set on a black velvet surround. Hinged repoussé signature plaque below covering an aperture for the controlling of the pendulum. Movm.: rectangular brass movement 145 x 77 mm, 1 barrel, verge escapement, cycloidal cheeks, silk suspended short pendulum.
Pieter Visbach, The Hague, also Visbagh (1634-1722) apprenticed to Salomon Coster in 1646; moved to Middelburg in 1652, where he probably worked with Adam Oosterwijck, Severijn's father. After Coster's death in 1659 he returned to The Hague and in 1660 took over the workshop from Coster's widow, accepting the obligation to keep on young Christiaan Reijnaert as an employee. One of the witnesses to this contract of sale was Jacobus van Leeuwarden, Jan Jacobzoon's father. Pieter Visbach was without question the most prominent clockmaker in The Hague until Johannes van Ceulen had become famous. Visbach first rented a house in Wagenstaat/Veerkade and bought it in 1671. He was the first master of the Clockmakers' Guild in The Hague, founded in 1688. His younger brother Geerlof was also a maker of Hague clocks; his son Frederick succeeded his father as keeper of the clock of Nieuwe Kerk in 1705.
Little is known about Visbach's years in Middelburg. There is no information on the location of his workshop and we do not know where, when and from whom Visbach learned to make Hague clocks.
Source: H.M. Vehmeyer, "Clocks: Their origin and development 1320-1880", Vol. II, Wilsele 2004, p. 1000.
This clock is illustrated and described in H.M. Vehmeyer, "Clocks: Their origin and development 1320-1880", vol. I, Wilsele 2004, pp. 298.
estimated
29.000—40.000 €
Price realized
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