Lot 19
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A GERMAN BOULLE TORTOISESHELL STRIKING TABLE CLOCK WITH QUARTER REPAEAT
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A GERMAN BOULLE TORTOISESHELL STRIKING TABLE CLOCK WITH QUARTER REPAEAT

BY MATTHIAS ANDONI FISCHER, SATZ, FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY, RETAILED BY DECHARMES, LONDON

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A GERMAN BOULLE TORTOISESHELL STRIKING TABLE CLOCK WITH QUARTER REPAEAT
BY MATTHIAS ANDONI FISCHER, SATZ, FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY, RETAILED BY DECHARMES, LONDON
The brass-bound boullework case on toupie feet, the gilt-brass dial with scroll-engraved spandrels, matted centre with ringed winding holes, mock pendulum and date apertures, the arch with later retail plaque signed Decharmes London, flanked by a regulation ring and a NID SCHLAGEN/SCHLAGEN ring, the twin fusee movement with verge escapement, hour strike on bell and pull quarter repeat on three bells, the engraved back plate with retail plaque inscribed Decharmes/London over signature MATTHIAS ANDONI/FISCHER SATZ
13¼ in. (35 cm.) high, handle down
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.
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Lot Essay

A red japanned bracket clock signed by Simon De Charmes (a freeman of the Clockmaker's Company, 1691-1730) is illustrated in Cescinsky and Webster's, English Domestic Clocks, London, 1914. A related boulle-inlaid case in the Louis IV manner features on a 1690's long-case clock by Daniel Quare (d.1724), who was elected Master of the Clockmakers' Company in 1708 (advertised by R. A. Lee in Connoisseur, May, 1956).

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