James Stratton
Director
Lot 96TP
A 17th century and later marquetry and walnut veneered hour striking longcase clock Richard Browne, London
2 December 2025, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£3,000 - £5,000
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Lewis Walduck
Cataloguer
A 17th century and later marquetry and walnut veneered hour striking longcase clock
Richard Browne, London
The case with flat-topped hood over a pierced sound fret backed in old silk, flanked by ebonised twist columns with rectangular glazed observation windows to the sides, above a convex throat moulding. The long trunk door with a moulded surround enclosing two panels of marquetry depicting floral still-life scenes, the upper panel centred by a bird, above a circular brass-mounted lenticle. The moulded base set on a further decorated marquetry plinth.
The 10 inch brass dial with Roman and Arabic numerals divided by half-hour markers, the finely matted centre with subsidiary seconds dial to the upper section and chamfered calendar aperture below, fitted with pierced blued steel hands and framed by cast brass cherub-head spandrels. Signed along the lower edge Richard Browne, London.
The two-train movement united by five knopped pillars, with anchor escapement, striking the hours on a bell mounted above via external countwheel. Currently ticking and striking. Sold together with a pair of brass weights and pendulum. 1.95m (6.41ft) high.
The case with flat-topped hood over a pierced sound fret backed in old silk, flanked by ebonised twist columns with rectangular glazed observation windows to the sides, above a convex throat moulding. The long trunk door with a moulded surround enclosing two panels of marquetry depicting floral still-life scenes, the upper panel centred by a bird, above a circular brass-mounted lenticle. The moulded base set on a further decorated marquetry plinth.
The 10 inch brass dial with Roman and Arabic numerals divided by half-hour markers, the finely matted centre with subsidiary seconds dial to the upper section and chamfered calendar aperture below, fitted with pierced blued steel hands and framed by cast brass cherub-head spandrels. Signed along the lower edge Richard Browne, London.
The two-train movement united by five knopped pillars, with anchor escapement, striking the hours on a bell mounted above via external countwheel. Currently ticking and striking. Sold together with a pair of brass weights and pendulum. 1.95m (6.41ft) high.
Footnotes
Provenance:
The Carl Barnes Collection
Dreweatt Neate Auctioneers, 24th November 1992, lot 229.
Richard Baker was admitted as a Free Brother of the Clockmakers' Company in 1685 and died in 1700. He was initially apprenticed to John Chatfield through the Blacksmiths' Company before transferring in 1683 to Richard Browne, clockmaker. Baker was made a freeman by redemption in June 1685, by order of the Lord Mayor. His widow, Jane, continued the business after his death and is recorded in 1710 as taking on an apprentice.
Reference: Brian Loomes, The Early Clockmakers of Great Britain, N.A.G. Press, 1981, p.66.