A GEORGE II MAHOGANY CHIMING BRACKET CLOCK

A GEORGE II MAHOGANY CHIMING BRACKET CLOCK

MID-18TH CENTURY

the brass eight day chain driven triple fusee movement chiming on a nest of eight bells and striking on a single bell, the backplate inscribed 'Isaac Warriner Connock' inside engraved scrolling foliage, the brass dial with a silvered chapter ring and black Roman numerals with day, moonphase and date apertures beneath 'Fast Slow' and 'Strike Silent' subsidiary dials and an arch with an enamelled moonphase and date aperture surrounded by engraved scrolling foliage and inscribed 'Warriner Connock', the mahogany and brass case with a caddy top, brass grilles to the front and back, side panes and brass feet, with keys and pendulum

61.5cm high, 37cm wide, 24.2cm deep

Catalogue Note

Isaac Warriner is recorded as being the tenant of Conock Manor in the parish of Chirton, Wiltshire, between the early 1720s and his death in 1752. There are also local records that list a clockmaker by the name of W. Adams as being in Conock in c.1738. While it is a very well made clock for one made in the provinces and it unusual for the backplate and dial to be inscribed for the owner rather than the maker, it would seem likely that Isaac Warriner commissioned a clock from the aforementioned Mr Adams while in residency at Conock Manor.