Bonhams 1793 : A grandfather clock, Daniel Quare, with two keys and a winder, two weights and pendulum

Quare and Horseman, London, number 179
The case with flat top over an arched moulded cornice supported on gilt metal mounted Doric columns over a long arched door with ebony and boxwood stringing on a (restored) base, the 12 inch arched brass dial with subsidiary date dial in the arch flanked by addorsed dolphin spandrels over the Roman and Arabic chapter ring with half-quarter marks and matted centre with subsidiary seconds dial, the joint signature engraved within a finely polished oval, the movement with five crisply turned and finned pillars, anchor escapement and rack strike on the bell 2.30 (7ft 6.45ins) high.

Estimate:

£7,000 - 10,000
€8,200 - 12,000
US$ 11,000 - 15,000

Footnotes

Daniel Quare and his former apprentice Stephen Horseman are recorded as a partnership in London between 1718 and 1733. Following Quare's death in 1724, Horseman continued to make clocks in the style of Quare until the business went bankrupt in 1733 and it was probably taken over by Richard Peckover.