JOSEPH KNIBB, LONDON. CIRCA 1685

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A Charles II walnut striking hooded wall clock
Joseph Knibb, London. Circa 1685
The case with forward sliding hood with glazed sides and lunette to the top with recessed blind fret, the bracket with carved wood volutes supporting the base board, the 5½ in. square dial signed Jos Knibb London on the silvered Roman chapter ring with typical half hour markers and well sculpted blued steel hand, winged cherub spandrels, the movement with four turned and ringed pillars on ball feet, the going train with verge escapement and short bob pendulum, the strike train with countwheel secured to the rear brass slat and striking on a bell above the top plate
13½ in. (34.3 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Ronald A. Lee, The Knibb Family * Clockmakers, Manor House Press, 1964, pp.63-66.

Born in 1640, Joseph Knibb was probably apprenticed to his cousin Samuel. By 1655 he was working in Oxford, where he took three apprentices. He moved to London and became a free Brother in the Clockmakers' Company in 1670. His first premises were at the Dial in Fleet Street and in 1693 he moved to The Clock Dial near Charing Cross. He became a Steward in the Company in 1684 and an Assistant in 1689. The number of clocks still extant suggest that his was one of the busiest workshops in London. He sold the business in 1697 and moved to Hanslop in Buckinghamshire, where he continued to make some clocks but on a much smaller scale. He died in 1711.
See also lots 88 and 90.

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