A QUEEN ANNE WALNUT AND MARQUETRY LONGCASE CLOCK

A QUEEN ANNE WALNUT AND MARQUETRY LONGCASE CLOCK

C.1705

the brass eight day movement with five turned, finned and latched pillars, with an anchor escapement striking the hours and half hours on two bells, with pull-repeat, the 12in brass dial with silvered chapter ring with Roman hours and Arabic minutes, the matted centre with moulded winding holes, subsidiary seconds dial and a date aperture with scroll decoration and a fan centre, with gilt metal cherub mask spandrels, signed 'Gab. Boullenger London', the case marquetry inlaid with strapwork panels and with scrolling seaweed borders, the hood with fine Ionic columns above silvered wood leaf carved corbels in the manner of Tompion, the trunk door with a brass framed lenticle above an unusual hinged door to the plinth probably to access a one-and-aquarter second pendulum, with walnut sides, with two brass cased weights, pendulum, winding key and two case keys

210.7cm high

Provenance

Purchased from Charles Lumb & Sons Ltd, 2, Montpellier Gardens, Harrogate, HG1 2TF, 19th April 1982.

From a Private Collection, West Yorkshire, formed in the 1970s and 1980s.

Catalogue Note

The presence of carved gilt or silvered wood corbels below the hood is a sign of quality and were employed by some of the most eminent clockmakers of the period including: Thomas Tompion and Daniel Quare. Several of Tompion's clocks in the Royal Collection have similar carved corbels.