A QUEEN ANNE ORMOLU AND EBONY STRIKING TABLE CLOCK WITH PULL QUARTER REPEAT

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£ 195 300
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Лот 22 | A QUEEN ANNE ORMOLU AND EBONY STRIKING TABLE CLOCK WITH PULL QUARTER REPEAT
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£ 180 000 – 200 000
A QUEEN ANNE ORMOLU AND EBONY STRIKING TABLE CLOCK WITH PULL QUARTER REPEAT

THOMAS TOMPION AND EDWARD BANGER, LONDON, NO. 427, CIRCA 1705

CASE: the 'phase 3' case with acanthus scroll handle to the inverted bell top, the glazed front with foliate scroll fret above and shell and griffin mount below, cartouche scroll escutcheon and false escutcheon, rectangular glazed sides with ebonised scroll fret above, glazed rear door, the spreading plinth raised on block feet to the angles, the front sill with stamped number ‘427’

DIAL: the 7 x 8 inch latched dial plate with silvered chapter ring, blued steel hands, Roman hours and Arabic five minutes, sword-hilt half-hour markers and cross half-quarter-hour markers, the matted centre with false pendulum aperture, with subsidiary silvered dials for regulation and ‘S / N’ (strike / no-strike) flanking the engraved signature ‘THO. TOMPION / EDW. BANGER / Londini / Fecit’, double-screwed Minerva mask and foliate spandrels, the reverse of the dial plate stamped ‘427’ to the lower edge

MOVEMENT: the eight-day two-train gut fusee movement with plates joined by seven latched knopped pillars, with verge escapement, striking at the half-hour and hour on two bells, pull quarter repeat levers mounted to the backplate with cords to both sides of the case, brass bob pendulum and hold fast, the backplate profusely engraved with flowerheads and trailing foliage, the signature cartouche flanked by griffin head monopodiae and inscribed ‘THO. TOMPION / EDW. BANGER / LONDINI / Fecit’, a Pan mask within a lambrequin below and numbered to the lower edge ‘427’

16 1/2 in. (42 cm.) high (handle down); 10 5/8 in. (27 cm.) wide; 6 3/4 in. (17.1 cm.) deep





Provenance

with R. A. Lee, Bruton Place, London, 1981.

with Asprey, New Bond Street, London, 1994/5;

Private Collection, London, U.K.



Literature

Antiquarian Horology, volume XII, June 1981, pp. 590-1.

Antiquarian Horology, volume XXII, Spring 1995, p. 4.



Exhibited

With Asprey, Grosvenor House Fair, London, 9-18 June 1994.



Special notice

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