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A fine and rare mid 18th century repeating, Dutch-striking ebony miniature table clock with Exhibition provenance Roger Dunster
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A fine and rare mid 18th century repeating, Dutch-striking ebony miniature table clock with Exhibition provenance
Roger Dunster
The triple pad top case veneered in ebony on an oak carcass, surmounted by a small cast handle over an elaborate moulded cornice and brass-framed glazed side panels to a moulded base on block feet.
The 4 inch arched brass dial with silvered dial for rise and fall regulation in the arch flanked by pierced scroll spandrels over a silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with floating lozenge half hour marks enclosing a finely matted centre with mock pendulum and date apertures, with applied shaped nameplate and silvered Arabic alarm setting dial to the centre, each corner set with a scroll spandrel, a strike/silent lever set just above I
The movement united by five knopped pillars, with twin chain fusees, rack strike and verge escapement, the hours sounded in the Dutch manner, ie on the half hour and the hour on two bells of different tone, the backplate with a single line border framing a design of elaborate foliate scrolls centred by a bold signature set just above the pendulum holdfast bracket, the quarter repeat barrel and side brackets decorated in a similar manner 28cms (11ins) high with handle raised.
The triple pad top case veneered in ebony on an oak carcass, surmounted by a small cast handle over an elaborate moulded cornice and brass-framed glazed side panels to a moulded base on block feet.
The 4 inch arched brass dial with silvered dial for rise and fall regulation in the arch flanked by pierced scroll spandrels over a silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with floating lozenge half hour marks enclosing a finely matted centre with mock pendulum and date apertures, with applied shaped nameplate and silvered Arabic alarm setting dial to the centre, each corner set with a scroll spandrel, a strike/silent lever set just above I
The movement united by five knopped pillars, with twin chain fusees, rack strike and verge escapement, the hours sounded in the Dutch manner, ie on the half hour and the hour on two bells of different tone, the backplate with a single line border framing a design of elaborate foliate scrolls centred by a bold signature set just above the pendulum holdfast bracket, the quarter repeat barrel and side brackets decorated in a similar manner 28cms (11ins) high with handle raised.
Footnotes
Literature:
H.M. Vehmeyer, Clocks, Their Origin and Development 1320-1880, Snoeck 2004. Item LC98.
Exhibited:
Twee eeuwen uurwerken 1657-1857, Nederlands Goud-Zilver-en Klokkenmuseum, Utrecht, 1968, cat. No.13.