This is a Dutch clock, and the earlier Dutch makers were always fond of representing their moons as human faces.

It was made by a great master of his craft, as famous in his native land as old Dan Quare is in England, and its mechanism has outlived its creator by more than three hundred years." "Would it be an accurate timekeeper, do you think ?" asked Barrant, looking mistrustfully at the motionless face of the moon, as though he suspected it of covertly sneering at him.
"I should think so.

These old clockmakers made their clocks to keep perfect time, and outlast Time himself! And this clock is a perfect specimen of the hood clock, which marked a period in clock-making between the old weight clocks and the long cases.

Hood clocks were popular in their day in Holland, but they have always been rare in this country.

It would be interesting to trace how this one came into this house.