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A WILLIAM AND MARY EBONISED AND GILT BRASS-MOUNTED TABLE CLOCK
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A WILLIAM AND MARY EBONISED AND GILT BRASS-MOUNTED TABLE CLOCK

EDWARD BURGIS, LONDON. CIRCA 1695

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A WILLIAM AND MARY EBONISED AND GILT BRASS-MOUNTED TABLE CLOCK
EDWARD BURGIS, LONDON. CIRCA 1695
The case with brass handle to the moulded cushion top, pierced brass sound frets to the sides and to the top rail of the front door, gilt-brass escutcheons with herm masks, rectangular glazed panels to sides and to the rear door, on a moulded plinth base with brass bun feet, the 6½ in. square brass dial with engraved border and winged cherub spandrels to a silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with trident fleur-de-lys half hour markers, signed Edw. Burgis/London, matted centre with date aperture above, blued steel hands, strike/silent lever above 60, the twin line and fusee movement with six ring turned latched pillars (three now pinned), verge escapement (re-converted) with internal rack strike on bell, formerly with pull repeat, the foliate engraved backplate with signature Edw. Burgis/Londini Fecit; winding key; two door keys
12 3/4 in. (32.5 cm.) high, handle down
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Lot Essay

Brian Loomes writes of Edward Burgis; 'Nothing much known about him and he was not a member of CC [Clockmakers' Company]. In Apr 1670 he married at St Saviour's Southwark to Patience Clement...he and his wife were both still alive in 1713.' (The Early Clockmakers of Great Britain, NAG Press, 1981, p.127).

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