A good late 17th century brass lantern clock with alarm
John Holloway of Stroud, circa 1690
The overhanging 6.5-inch silvered Roman chapter ring with cruciform half-hour divisions, framing a six-pointed silvered Arabic centre alarm and single hand, within engraved foliate scrolls and bellflowers headed by maker's name "Jno Holloway Stroud", the original anchor escapement countwheel-striking on a six-inch bell suspended from an urn finial on cruciform support descending to urn corner finials each with inverted acorn-form body, to the front flanking a pierced surmount engraved with sea creatures and flowering plants, the side frets plain, the whole raised on ball-knopped supports and with twin mounting spurs 39cm high (sold with 30-hour weight, lead bob and 'doughnut', rope and chains)
The overhanging 6.5-inch silvered Roman chapter ring with cruciform half-hour divisions, framing a six-pointed silvered Arabic centre alarm and single hand, within engraved foliate scrolls and bellflowers headed by maker's name "Jno Holloway Stroud", the original anchor escapement countwheel-striking on a six-inch bell suspended from an urn finial on cruciform support descending to urn corner finials each with inverted acorn-form body, to the front flanking a pierced surmount engraved with sea creatures and flowering plants, the side frets plain, the whole raised on ball-knopped supports and with twin mounting spurs 39cm high (sold with 30-hour weight, lead bob and 'doughnut', rope and chains)
Sold for
£3,360
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Internet reference: see Roy C. Harris Clocks (www.rchclocks.fsnet.co.uk/LCA.html) for a similar "very distinctive and desirable [lantern] clock" by John Holloway's brother William, also of Stroud, with alarm and anchor escapement, circa 1687. Matching details include the sea creature-engraved fretwork, the rebated and incised spandrels accommodating the pillars (the two brothers were reputedly the only exponents of this particular pillar), the six-pointed alarm dial. Here, John is recorded as "of Devizes".
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