James Stratton
Director
Lot 62TP
A good first half of the 18th century walnut veneered striking longcase clock William Kipling, London
2 December 2025, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£4,000 - £6,000
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Lewis Walduck
Cataloguer
A good first half of the 18th century walnut veneered striking longcase clock
William Kipling, London
The case surmounted by a pair of brass ball finials over a caddy top with inset pierced sound fret backed in silk, above a moulded break-arch top with a further sound fret, the front supported by a pair of Doric columns. The sides with glazed observation panels, over a concave throat moulding and break-arch trunk door with moulded surround and brass lock escutcheon to the lower left, terminating in a moulded base and raised on a plain plinth. The inside of the trunk door stamped MMF. The 12 inch brass dial with Roman and Arabic numerals divided by fleur-de-lys half-hour markers, the finely matted centre with subsidiary seconds dial and decorated calendar aperture, framed by cast brass spandrels. The break arch signed William Kipling, London with pierced blued steel hands. The five-pillar movement with anchor escapement, striking the hours on a bell mounted above via an internal countwheel. Currently ticking and striking sold with a pair of brass clad weights and pendulum. 2.46m (8ft) high.
The case surmounted by a pair of brass ball finials over a caddy top with inset pierced sound fret backed in silk, above a moulded break-arch top with a further sound fret, the front supported by a pair of Doric columns. The sides with glazed observation panels, over a concave throat moulding and break-arch trunk door with moulded surround and brass lock escutcheon to the lower left, terminating in a moulded base and raised on a plain plinth. The inside of the trunk door stamped MMF. The 12 inch brass dial with Roman and Arabic numerals divided by fleur-de-lys half-hour markers, the finely matted centre with subsidiary seconds dial and decorated calendar aperture, framed by cast brass spandrels. The break arch signed William Kipling, London with pierced blued steel hands. The five-pillar movement with anchor escapement, striking the hours on a bell mounted above via an internal countwheel. Currently ticking and striking sold with a pair of brass clad weights and pendulum. 2.46m (8ft) high.
Footnotes
William Kipling was apprenticed to Thomas Johnson in 1695 and later established his own workshops at Ratcliffe Cross, where he worked from 1705 until 1750. He evidently enjoyed a thriving Middle Eastern market, as many of his watches, bracket clocks, and lantern clocks were produced with Turkish dials specifically for clients in the Ottoman Empire.