EDWARD BURGIS, LONDON, CIRCA 1695

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25.05.2022 10:30UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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Lot 102 | EDWARD BURGIS, LONDON, CIRCA 1695
EDWARD BURGIS, LONDON, CIRCA 1695A WILLIAM III STRIKING TABLE CLOCKCASE: the domed top with baluster loop handle and pierced foliate mounts, vase finials to the angles, conforming mounts to door and side sound frets, winged mask escutcheon and false escutcheon, glazed sides and rear door, raised on disc feetDIAL: the 7 inch square dial with latched dial feet, the silvered chapter ring with Roman hours and Arabic five minutes with fleur-de-lis half-hour markers, blued steel hands, the matted centre with alarm setting disc, cherub head spandrels and levers above 'XII', 'N' / 'N', for no strike and no alarmMOVEMENT: the eight-day two-train gut fusee movement with plates joined by seven latched ringed pillars, rack striking and quarter repeat on two bells, alarm strike to hour bell, bob pendulum and hold-fast, the backplate engraved with flowerheads and foliage centred with a bird, signed to lower cartouche 'Edwardus Burgis / Londini fecit'Ebonised wood and gilt-brass13 1⁄2 in. (34.3 cm.) high (handle down); 10 in. (25.4 cm.) wide; 6 1⁄8 in. (15.5 cm.) deep Provenance Acquired from R.A. Lee, London, January 1966. Literature P.G. Dawson, C.B. Drover, D.W. Parkes, Early English Clocks, Woodbridge, 1982, pp. 392-7, pls. 557-63, 662.
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