James Stratton
Director
Lot 69
A good late 17th century quarter repeating ebony basket top table clock John Stanton, London
2 December 2025, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£4,500 - £6,000
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Lewis Walduck
Cataloguer
A good late 17th century quarter repeating ebony basket top table clock
John Stanton, London
The case surmounted by a twin S-shaped handle over a repoussé basket decorated with flowers among scrolls and foliage, flanked by four elaborate finials. The front door applied with four pierced repousse mounts, the sides with rectangular glazed panels, all resting on a moulded plinth and brass bun feet.
The 7-inch square brass dial with silvered chapter ring, Roman numerals and Arabic five-minute markers within bold lines and with distinctive lozenge half-hour markers, framed by four winged cherub spandrels and a strike/silent lever above XII. The matted centre with elaborately decorated date aperture, mock pendulum, ringed winding squares, and blued steel hands. The six-pillared rack-striking double gut fusee movement with verge escapement and short bob pendulum, striking the hours on a bell. The finely engraved backplate decorated with tulips, scrolls, and floral motifs framed by a wheatear border, signed in the central cartouche John Stanton, London. Together with a winding key and case key. Ticking, striking and repeating. 42cms (16.5ins) high.
The case surmounted by a twin S-shaped handle over a repoussé basket decorated with flowers among scrolls and foliage, flanked by four elaborate finials. The front door applied with four pierced repousse mounts, the sides with rectangular glazed panels, all resting on a moulded plinth and brass bun feet.
The 7-inch square brass dial with silvered chapter ring, Roman numerals and Arabic five-minute markers within bold lines and with distinctive lozenge half-hour markers, framed by four winged cherub spandrels and a strike/silent lever above XII. The matted centre with elaborately decorated date aperture, mock pendulum, ringed winding squares, and blued steel hands. The six-pillared rack-striking double gut fusee movement with verge escapement and short bob pendulum, striking the hours on a bell. The finely engraved backplate decorated with tulips, scrolls, and floral motifs framed by a wheatear border, signed in the central cartouche John Stanton, London. Together with a winding key and case key. Ticking, striking and repeating. 42cms (16.5ins) high.
Footnotes
John Stanton (1684–1725) was active in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. He became a freeman of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers in 1693 and continued working until at least 1725. Stanton spent several years abroad, likely between 1700 and 1712, before returning to London. He may have been the son of Edward Stanton, another noted clockmaker.
Provenance:
Purchased W.F. Turk, Fine Antique Clocks, London, 2018.