A fine and rare late 17th century silver mounted ebony veneered bracket clock with alarm and pull quarter repeat
Fromanteel, London
the caddy top surmounted by a cast handle centred by a knop and terminating in twin birds heads on addorsed dolphins, each of the four sides of the caddy further mounted with symmetrical patterns of foliate scrolls, the sides of the case with shaped pierced fretwork and rectangular glazed panels to a moulded base on squat bun feet, the front door with shaped pierced soundfret and twin escutcheons, the 6.5 inch square brass dial set with a strike/not strike lever to the upper centre with silver winged cherubs head spandrels enclosed by an engraved wheat ear border that includes the copperplate signature, the silvered Roman and arabic chapter ring with fancy half hour marks and matted centre with decorated date aperture with pin hole adjustment set over a silvered arabic alarm set disc, the dial feet all latched to the twin gut fusee movement, in turn united by seven knopped and finned latched pillars with verge escapement striking on a bell, the pull repeat sounding the hours on an additional two bells and taking its power directly from the strike train, the alarm train mounted on a subsidiary pair of plates mounted to the going side of the movement, the rectangular plates joined by four turned pinned pillars with separate spring barrel with outside click and crown wheel control to the double headed hammer mounted vertically above, the backplate engraved all over with a symmetrical pattern of leaves, scrolls and flowerheads centred by a repeat signature 36cms. (14.25ins.) high
