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Jonathan Lowndes (born circa 1657) was made Freeman of the Clockmakers' Company in 1680 and is recorded at The Dial in Pall Mall from 1683. There is no record of him after 1702.
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JONATHAN LOWNDES, PALL MALL, LONDON. CIRCA 1695
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A WILLIAM AND MARY MAPLE AND EBONISED STRIKING LONGCASE CLOCK OF MONTH DURATION
JONATHAN LOWNDES, PALL MALL, LONDON. CIRCA 1695
CASE: caddy top hood with giltwood-capped ebonised columns, glazed side panels, convex throat mouldings above rectangular trunk door, later skirting to reduced plinth DIAL: 12 in. square brass dial with scored line border, cherub and coronet spandrels to silvered chapter ring with half hour and half quarter hour markers, signed 'Jonat Lowndes in Pall Mall', subsidiary seconds, ringed winding holes and engraved date square to matted centre, blued steel hands (minute replaced) MOVEMENT: with five ringed pillars (three latched), anchor escapement and outside countwheel strike on later gong; two (eight day) brass weights, pendulum, winding key, two case keys
88 in. (224 cm.) high; 20 in. (51 cm.) wide; 10½ in. (27 cm.) deep
JONATHAN LOWNDES, PALL MALL, LONDON. CIRCA 1695
CASE: caddy top hood with giltwood-capped ebonised columns, glazed side panels, convex throat mouldings above rectangular trunk door, later skirting to reduced plinth DIAL: 12 in. square brass dial with scored line border, cherub and coronet spandrels to silvered chapter ring with half hour and half quarter hour markers, signed 'Jonat Lowndes in Pall Mall', subsidiary seconds, ringed winding holes and engraved date square to matted centre, blued steel hands (minute replaced) MOVEMENT: with five ringed pillars (three latched), anchor escapement and outside countwheel strike on later gong; two (eight day) brass weights, pendulum, winding key, two case keys
88 in. (224 cm.) high; 20 in. (51 cm.) wide; 10½ in. (27 cm.) deep
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