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Cartel clock
Jan Swart, c. 1792
In 1788 the Felix Meritis Society moved into its own grand, Neoclassical edifice on Amsterdam’s Keizersgracht, built to designs by the architect Jacob Otten Husly. This wall clock was made a few years later for the large anteroom on the main floor. Husly designed a variation of a French type. The little boy holding a scythe symbolizes Time.
- Artwork typecartelklok, mechanical clock
- Object numberBK-NM-8869
- Dimensionsheight 102.5 cm x width 75.5 cm x depth 25 cm
- Physical characteristicslindehout, verguld