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A fine and rare early 18th century ebony Dutch-striking musical table clock with 12 tunes on 13 bells and 23 hammers Roger Dunster London
11 December 2019, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £47,562.50 inc. premium
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A fine and rare early 18th century ebony Dutch-striking musical table clock with 12 tunes on 13 bells and 23 hammers
Roger Dunster London
The lacquered brass mounted case surmounted by five cone finials over substantial banded elements and side handles, the twin side apertures set with elaborate sound frets, on a stepped plinth base on cushion feet, the 8 inch arched brass dial with 12 tune selection sector enclosing the rolling moonphase disc over a silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with lozenge half hour markers, each corner of the dial set with a subsidiary dial offering 'strike/not strike', 'chime/not chime', rise and fall regulation, and days of the week, all with floral engraved centres, signed on a recessed silvered plaque in the finely matted centre with additional date aperture and good blued steel hands,the very substantial triple gut fusee movement with shaped plates verge escapement, striking in the Dutch system, playing music every hour followed by the hour on a large bell, and on every half hour followed by the upcoming hour on a smaller bell, the tunes replayed on a run of 13 graduated bells and 23 hammers activated by a 10-inch long pinned brass barrel running across the top of the large backplate engraved with scrolls to each corner framing the signature 'Roger Dunster' above the pendulum lock. Ticking, striking and playing music. Together with a later winding key. 60cms (24ins) high
The lacquered brass mounted case surmounted by five cone finials over substantial banded elements and side handles, the twin side apertures set with elaborate sound frets, on a stepped plinth base on cushion feet, the 8 inch arched brass dial with 12 tune selection sector enclosing the rolling moonphase disc over a silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with lozenge half hour markers, each corner of the dial set with a subsidiary dial offering 'strike/not strike', 'chime/not chime', rise and fall regulation, and days of the week, all with floral engraved centres, signed on a recessed silvered plaque in the finely matted centre with additional date aperture and good blued steel hands,the very substantial triple gut fusee movement with shaped plates verge escapement, striking in the Dutch system, playing music every hour followed by the hour on a large bell, and on every half hour followed by the upcoming hour on a smaller bell, the tunes replayed on a run of 13 graduated bells and 23 hammers activated by a 10-inch long pinned brass barrel running across the top of the large backplate engraved with scrolls to each corner framing the signature 'Roger Dunster' above the pendulum lock. Ticking, striking and playing music. Together with a later winding key. 60cms (24ins) high
Footnotes
Roger Dunster worked in Amsterdam until the early 18th century. He was certainly in London when he married in 1714, where he worked for the next 11 years before he died in 1725.
In his will he was noted as Roguer of Amsterdam.
The tunes are the following:
A March in Dioclesian, from the opera Dioclesian by Henry Purcell written in 1690
Bath Minuet, first transcribed before 1750
A Rigadoon
Sig.r Senissino's Minuet
A March In Scipio
A Minuet
A Minuet
Bury Fair, a country dance transcribed in 1740
On a Bank of Flowers, an Irish lament
First of August, an English country dance, transcribed in 1740
Prince Eugene's March, first transcribed in 1710
King and the Miller, first transcribed in 1726.
Provenance:
Sold in these rooms 15th December 2009, lot 108.
Anthony Woodburn Fine Antique Clocks March 2011.