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A good First Period English brass lantern clock William Bowyer, London
8 July 2015, 14:00 BST
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A good First Period English brass lantern clock
William Bowyer, London
Surmounted by a boldly shouldered finial centred on a brass bell strap with characteristic chamfered arms and a highly decorated centre section, the four further finials matching and interspersed by engraved pierced frets of scrolls flanked by four upright members, on tapering Doric columns and ringed ball feet, signed along the lower edge of the dial 'William Bowyer of Lond fecit" between two flower heads, the silvered chapter ring with Roman numerals divided by simple half hour markers and enclosing a quarter hour track of six-pointed stars, the centre with (later) alarm setting dial and iron hand enclosed by an engraved ring of flowerheads and a stylised mask at VI, the weight driven movement with re-instated balance wheel escapement, the hourly strike via a brass countwheel activating the hammer with a chiselled spring and stop, with iron hoop and spikes and alarm mounted on the iron backplate, 40cms (15.5ins) high
Surmounted by a boldly shouldered finial centred on a brass bell strap with characteristic chamfered arms and a highly decorated centre section, the four further finials matching and interspersed by engraved pierced frets of scrolls flanked by four upright members, on tapering Doric columns and ringed ball feet, signed along the lower edge of the dial 'William Bowyer of Lond fecit" between two flower heads, the silvered chapter ring with Roman numerals divided by simple half hour markers and enclosing a quarter hour track of six-pointed stars, the centre with (later) alarm setting dial and iron hand enclosed by an engraved ring of flowerheads and a stylised mask at VI, the weight driven movement with re-instated balance wheel escapement, the hourly strike via a brass countwheel activating the hammer with a chiselled spring and stop, with iron hoop and spikes and alarm mounted on the iron backplate, 40cms (15.5ins) high
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Literature
Illustrated in White, English Lantern Clocks, 1989 II/55.