Along the windowed wall, the dining room cherishes a veritable treasure: among the Anglo-Dutch style furniture, characteristic for its minute floral inlays and domed shape, stands an eighteenth-century clock of very fine workmanship, both in terms of the case and mechanism.
Set below the dial is a small painting depicting a northern port and looking at its details it offers a singular suprise: a theatrical curtain is raised to frame a seascape in northern colours, which came alive as the hours struck.
The silhouettes applied in the foreground with a stage function, depicting sailing ships and sea waves, moved as a theatrical effect, accompanying the passage of time.
The dial bears a calendar with allegorical figures of the months and days of the week, accompanied by their Dutch names, and the signature of the watch case decorator J. P. Kroese, attested in Amsterdam around 1770.
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