Clocks · Clock
Clock by Olof Nohrin, Sweden, 1735
- Maker / attribution
- Olof Nohrin (Maker)
- Date
- 1735
- Historical period
- Early Modern Horology (1600 – 1750)
- Country of origin
- Sweden
- Place
- Sverige Falun Dalarna Dalarna Falun
- Object type
- Clock
- Materials / technique
- Fanerat, Snickrat, Gjutet, Monterat, Svarvat, Intarsia Alm Bly Alrot Tenn Glas Ek
- Dimensions
- Bredd 435.0 mm Djup 240.0 mm
- Holding institution
- Skansen
- Accession / object no.
- SKANM.0173951
- Credit line
- Skansen
- Catalogue title (original)
- Ur (Swedish)
View the source record ↗ (opens another website in a new tab)Suggest a correction
Record summary
Held and catalogued by Skansen (object number SKANM.0173951), this is a clock by Olof Nohrin, made in Sverige Falun Dalarna Dalarna Falun, Sweden, dated 1735. The Atlas places it in the Early Modern Horology period (1600 – 1750) of its Clocks collection. Materials and techniques recorded by the source: Fanerat, Snickrat, Gjutet, Monterat, Svarvat, Intarsia Alm Bly Alrot Tenn Glas Ek. Recorded dimensions: Bredd 435.0 mm Djup 240.0 mm. The record is illustrated with 2 photographs.
Assembled from the source record's structured fields. Dates and attributions are given as the source states them; where a field is missing the Atlas leaves it blank rather than estimating.
Catalogue description
Catalogue description from Skansen
Golvur av trä med kvadratisk urtavla av mässing och och sifferring av tenn signerad Nohrin Fahlun. Med timvisare och med romerska siffror. Urtavlan med gjutna brännförgyllda detaljer. Pendel av mässing samt flera lod av bly i lina. Fodral med rak senbarock form med snedlagt faner av alm med dekorativa inläggningar och listverk i alm och alrot. Huven med glasad dörr flankerad med smäckra skurna pilastrar. Fodralets kropp med inläggningar föreställande tulpaner och fodrets dörr med årtalet 1735 samt initialerna J L B. Dörren med rundad överkant och med oval glasruta. Sockel av ek med kvadratiskt faner av alrot. Golvur tillverkat av Olof Nohrin, 1735. De infällda initialerna J L B har tolkats som Jean Louis Bedoire. Enligt uppgift brukspatron på Gysinge bruk. Efterforskningar gjorda 2013 visar på att det dock var Bedoires barnbarn som var brukspatron på Gysinge på 1700-talets slut. Golvuret kan dock ha ärvts av barnbarnet. Under tidigt 1900-tal ingick golvuret i Hilmer Åbergs samling, som såldes på auktion efter hans död 1928. Golvuret köptes av Nordiska museets och Skansens Vänförening som sedan skänkte det till Nordiska museet oktober 1928. 1928 - 1928Inköpt på auktion efter: Åberg, Hilmer, Återförsäljare, ort: null
Shown in the original language of the source catalogue. An editor-reviewed English translation has not yet been published; we do not publish machine translations as authoritative text.
Historical context
Early Modern Horology (1600 – 1750)
Huygens' pendulum and balance spring transform accuracy; English makers develop the anchor and deadbeat escapements.
Huygens's pendulum (1656–57) improved clock accuracy from about a quarter of an hour to under a minute a day. The anchor escapement (c. 1670) and the long seconds pendulum created the longcase clock; London makers such as Fromanteel, Knibb, Tompion and Quare led European clockmaking, and French makers created the Boulle pendule.
Read the period in the timelineMore clocks from this periodEarlier: Renaissance Horology
Atlas type guide
Domestic clocks
A clock combines four systems: a source of power (falling weight, coiled spring, or later electricity), a gear train that divides time, an escapement and oscillator that regulate it (foliot, pendulum or balance), and an indicating system of dial and hands or a bell. Its history runs from the large iron weight-driven clocks of the late thirteenth century to Renaissance spring-driven table clocks, the pendulum revolution of 1656, the factory clocks of the nineteenth century and electric and quartz clocks of the twentieth.
Domestic clocks also reflect regional furniture and decorative traditions — English longcase and bracket clocks, French pendules, Viennese regulators, Black Forest and American shelf clocks — and therefore record changing tastes as much as technical progress.
What to look for
- How the clock is powered: weights, spring barrel, fusee, electric coil.
- The oscillator: foliot, short pendulum, long seconds pendulum or balance.
- Whether it strikes: hour only (count wheel) or hours and quarters (rack striking).
- The maker or retailer's name on dial and movement, and any factory trademarks.
- Signs of alteration — replaced dials, converted escapements, 'married' cases.
Dating clues
- Before 1656 clocks used foliots or balances; after, most domestic clocks have pendulums.
- Anchor escapements spread after c. 1670; minute hands became common at the same time.
- Factory production in America and Germany transformed prices after c. 1840.
General guidance written by the Atlas editors about this kind of object. It is not a statement about this particular piece; for that, rely on the source record above and on physical examination.
Related records
Clocks · 1700
Longcase clock, Sweden, 1700
Skelleftea museum
Clocks · 1739
Longcase clock, Sweden, 1739
National Association of Swedish Handicraft Societies
Clocks · 1700–1750
Longcase clock, Sweden, 1700–1750
Kulturparken Småland
Clocks · 1700-tal (1700 AD - 1799 AD)
Longcase clock, Sweden, 1700-tal (1700 AD - 1799 AD)
Swedish History Museum
Clocks · 1700
Longcase clock by Anders Torsel, Sweden, 1700
Nordic Museum Foundation
Clocks · 1735
Longcase clock by Petter Norsell, Sweden, 1735
Nordic Museum Foundation
Clocks · 1741–1745
Table clock by Gustaf Cronhiort, Sweden, 1741–1745
Nordic Museum Foundation
Clocks · 1700s
Wall clock by Petter Ernst, Sweden, 1700s
Suomen kansallismuseo