Standing clock, around 1720
Beautifully inlaid clock case
G. J. Nauta Leeuwarden
Gijsbert (Gijsbartus Jacobus Nauta is a clockmaker known as 'amused', working around 1720. according to Ottema (Lit. 8) mentioned in deeds of sale of 1718 and 1725, where he buys houses on the Oranje-Eewal. He died in or before 1757, when in an advertisement in the Leeuwarder courant the sale of a”curious silver pocket watch, made by the late Gijsbert J. Nauta"