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Lot Essay
A silver-mounted ebony striking table clock with pull quarter repeat by Edward Stanton was sold, the property of the late Mrs Lionel Moore, Christie's London, 27 May 2010 (£55,250). The movement of that clock had comparable features to that of the present example including, similar turned and latched pillars and back plate with scored line border and related floral and thistle engraving. The back plates to both clocks are also signed in a similar manner.
The design of the (re-instated) pull quarter repeat work on this clock is very distinctive, with its double ended repeat lever mounted through the back plate, counterpoised hammer tails and side-mounted quarter bell. Clearly it was chosen to use the holes and space left by the original. Quarter work of closely related design to this can be seen on a table clock by Robert Seignior illustrated, P.G. Dawson, C.B. Drover & D.W. Parkes, Early English Clocks, Woodbridge, 1982, pp. 358-359, plates 512-517.
Edward Stanton (circa 1642- post 1715) was apprenticed in December 1655 to Francis Bowen and later Nathaniel Allen. He was Free from Clockmakers' Company in January 1662/63 and soon after established his own business, taking on fourteen apprentices between 1664 and 1705. He was made Assistant to the Clockmakers' Company in 1682, Warden in 1693 and its Master in 1697. In January 1673/74 it was suggested that he had been employed by Robert Seignior to remove the name of Henry Jones from a clock once belonging to Charles II and replace it with Seignior's. The case was presented to the Court of the Clockmakers' Company but no apparent action was taken. In 1699 he oversaw John Ebsworth's will. Stanton regularly attended the Clockmakers' Company until 1715 when he most likely died.
The design of the (re-instated) pull quarter repeat work on this clock is very distinctive, with its double ended repeat lever mounted through the back plate, counterpoised hammer tails and side-mounted quarter bell. Clearly it was chosen to use the holes and space left by the original. Quarter work of closely related design to this can be seen on a table clock by Robert Seignior illustrated, P.G. Dawson, C.B. Drover & D.W. Parkes, Early English Clocks, Woodbridge, 1982, pp. 358-359, plates 512-517.
Edward Stanton (circa 1642- post 1715) was apprenticed in December 1655 to Francis Bowen and later Nathaniel Allen. He was Free from Clockmakers' Company in January 1662/63 and soon after established his own business, taking on fourteen apprentices between 1664 and 1705. He was made Assistant to the Clockmakers' Company in 1682, Warden in 1693 and its Master in 1697. In January 1673/74 it was suggested that he had been employed by Robert Seignior to remove the name of Henry Jones from a clock once belonging to Charles II and replace it with Seignior's. The case was presented to the Court of the Clockmakers' Company but no apparent action was taken. In 1699 he oversaw John Ebsworth's will. Stanton regularly attended the Clockmakers' Company until 1715 when he most likely died.