Jacques de Selliers Joins hobbyDB Advisory Board

Jacques de Selliers, an expert in majoliclockophilia, has joined the hobbyDB Advisory Board. (If you aren’t familiar with that term, it means “connoisseur of faience clocks”… Not familiar with “faience?” It refers to objects with a “fine tin-glazed pottery on a delicate pale buff earthenware body.”)

More specifically, he curates the Clockarium, a museum of Art Deco ceramic clocks in Brussels. There are over a thousand different mantel clocks from the first half of the 20th Century in the museum. He is also one of the main contributors to a 2008 Visitor’s Guide to the museum, printed in French and Dutch.

Just a small portion of the Clockarium Museum’s collection… The top seven shelves are circa 1927 to 1940, the two bottom shelves are circa 1950)

The Clockarium is itself housed in a beautiful Art Deco building

We look forward to seeing more of the museum’s collection on hobbyDB!