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A good late 17th century red tortoiseshell basket top quarter repeating table clock Fromanteel
21 November 2023, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £17,920 inc. premium
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Surmounted by an S-scroll handle with tied-ribbon centre on foliate pommels to a repoussé brass basket of cherubs and cornucopia, the sound frets and sides set with similar panels backed in green silk, to a moulded base on squat claw and ball feet.
The 6.5 inch square brass dial with cast winged cherub's head spandrels interspersed by foliate engraving, framing the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring, finely matted centre and engraved date aperture with pin hole adjustment and blued steel hands.
The twin gut fusee movement with eight knopped and ringed latched pillars, the going train with verge escapement, sounding the hours a bell, followed by a single passing strike at the half-hour, pull quarter repeating the hours and quarters on activation of a cord emanating from the right underside of the case. The engraved backplate with single line border framing a symmetrical pattern of elaborate foliate scrolls and flowerheads, signed Fromanteel in a scroll cartouche. Ticking, striking and repeating. Together with a winding key and two case keys.
41cms (16ins) high
Surmounted by an S-scroll handle with tied-ribbon centre on foliate pommels to a repoussé brass basket of cherubs and cornucopia, the sound frets and sides set with similar panels backed in green silk, to a moulded base on squat claw and ball feet.
The 6.5 inch square brass dial with cast winged cherub's head spandrels interspersed by foliate engraving, framing the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring, finely matted centre and engraved date aperture with pin hole adjustment and blued steel hands.
The twin gut fusee movement with eight knopped and ringed latched pillars, the going train with verge escapement, sounding the hours a bell, followed by a single passing strike at the half-hour, pull quarter repeating the hours and quarters on activation of a cord emanating from the right underside of the case. The engraved backplate with single line border framing a symmetrical pattern of elaborate foliate scrolls and flowerheads, signed Fromanteel in a scroll cartouche. Ticking, striking and repeating. Together with a winding key and two case keys.
41cms (16ins) high
Footnotes
Accompanied by a certificate from E.F.J. Stender, Antiquair & Uurwerkmake, Sint-Michielsgestel, Nieuwstraat 1, dated August 1975.