Lot Essay
Le Count, Daniel. A Freeman of the Haberdashers' Company he was made a Free Brother in the Clockmakers' Company in September 1676. Believed to have been a refugee from France.
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DANIEL LE COUNT, LONDON. CIRCA 1700
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A William and Mary walnut and marquetry month-going longcase clock
Daniel Le Count, London. Circa 1700
The case with plain moulded skirt to the partially rebuilt plinth inlaid with floral marquetry within a wheatear and foliate border, the rectangular trunk door with similar marquetry in D-ended panels, the centre panel inlaid with a pair of helmed caryatids holding aloft a basket of flowers centred by a song bird, floral marquetry to the concave throat moulding and to the hood with gilt-wood capped columns, later pierced wood frets beneath the caddy top surmounted by three gilt-wood ball finials, the 12in. square dial signed Daniel Le Count LONDON on the silvered chapter ring with later pierced blued steel hands, the matted centre with subsidiary seconds, low-position ringed winding holes and foliate decorated calendar aperture, cherub-and-crown spandrels, wheatear engraved border, the movement with five ringed pillars, reversed trains with anchor escapement and outside countwheel strike on a bell above the plates
8ft.1in. (247cm.) high
Daniel Le Count, London. Circa 1700
The case with plain moulded skirt to the partially rebuilt plinth inlaid with floral marquetry within a wheatear and foliate border, the rectangular trunk door with similar marquetry in D-ended panels, the centre panel inlaid with a pair of helmed caryatids holding aloft a basket of flowers centred by a song bird, floral marquetry to the concave throat moulding and to the hood with gilt-wood capped columns, later pierced wood frets beneath the caddy top surmounted by three gilt-wood ball finials, the 12in. square dial signed Daniel Le Count LONDON on the silvered chapter ring with later pierced blued steel hands, the matted centre with subsidiary seconds, low-position ringed winding holes and foliate decorated calendar aperture, cherub-and-crown spandrels, wheatear engraved border, the movement with five ringed pillars, reversed trains with anchor escapement and outside countwheel strike on a bell above the plates
8ft.1in. (247cm.) high