brass posted movement with bifurcated spoked wheels, vertical verge escapement, knife-edge suspended horse rider pendulum, Dutch striking on count wheel and two alternating bells, quarter strike on the going train,  alarm on the large bell, 4 authentic cylindrical weights; velvet covered brass dial plate with leaf gold covered brass cherub spandrels, engraved and signed brass and silvered chapter ring with Roman numerals for the hours and Arabic ciphers for the minutes, pierced brass hands incorporating the alarm disc on the hour hand; shaped, hollow, rosewood veneered, oak backboard, housing the pendulum, twisted columns on either side of the dial, leaf gold finished brass cast front and side frets around the bells, surmounted by a leaf gold covered figure of Minerva on top of the small bell, pierced solid rosewood brackets with moulded pediment top to the backboard,  carrying the movement, height 82 cm, around 1740.

Hendrik van Voorst came from Deventer (east Netherlands), married in Purmerend in 1718  and settled in De Rijp (both Zaandam area) in 1719. In 1748 he moved to Hoorn, where he died in 1769. The local museum in De Rijp owns a Zaandam-wall clock signed H. van Voorst in De Rijp.

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