DANIEL DELANDER, LONDON. CIRCA 1725

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A GEORGE I WALNUT MONTH-GOING LONGCASE CLOCK
DANIEL DELANDER, LONDON. CIRCA 1725
CASE: stepped caddy hood with replaced brass finials, blind fret friezes, inset brass-capped columns, arched glazed side panels, moulded frame to feather-banded trunk door, conforming feather banding to the trunk sides and to front and sides of stepped plinth, inside of door with label for 'Wetherfield Collection of Clocks', restorations to veneers DIAL: 12 in. brass dial with gilt Indian mask spandrels to silvered chapter ring, matted centre with subsidiary seconds ring and date aperture, signed on a reserve cartouche 'Dan Delander/LONDON', the arch with regulation ring flanked by spandrels modelled as Cupid astride an eagle MOVEMENT: with five substantial ringed pillars (one latched), anchor escapement and rack strike on bell, restored cheekboards; two brass weights, pendulum, crank key, case key
103 in. (262 cm.) high; 19¼ in. (49 cm.) wide; 10½ in. (26.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

The Wetherfield Collection, sold 1928.

Literature

E. Bruton, The Wetherfield Collection, London, 1981, p. 204, fig. 178.

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Lot Essay

Daniel Delander was born in 1678 and apprenticed to Charles Halstead in 1692, later transferring to Thomas Tompion. He was Freed in July 1699 but continued his association with Tompion's workshop, quite possibly as a journeyman. When Tompion died in 1713 Delander moved from Devereux Court to premises between the Two Temple Gates in Fleet Street. He died in 1733. D. Roberts (British Longcase Clocks, Atglen, 1990, p. 105) calls him an exceptionally fine and ingenious maker, famed for his equation work and his duplex escapement. A particularly fine gilt-brass and ivory-mounted ebonised astronomical longcase clock with equation of time and duplex escapement was sold these rooms, 11 December 2002, lot 80 (£204,650).

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