A William and Mary walnut longcase clock

ESAYE FLEUREAU LONDINI FECIT, CIRCA 1700

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A William and Mary walnut longcase clock
Esaye Fleureau Londini Fecit, circa 1700
The case with twist columns to the formerly rising (runners still existing) hood with foliate pierced sound fret, convex throat moulding to the rectangular trunk door with oval lenticle, the plinth on later bun feet, 11 in. sq. dial with silvered chapter ring signed Esaye Fleueau Londini Fecit with pierced blued steel hands, the matted centre with ringed winding holes, decorated calendar aperture and subsidiary seconds ring, foliate winged cherub spandrels, the five ringed pillar movement with anchor escapement and inside countwheel strike on bell
6 ft. 8 in. (203 cm.) high

Lot Essay

Fleureau is listed (Brian Loomes, The Early Clockmakers of Great Britain, NAG, 1981, p. 228) as having come from Orléans to work in Long Acre near St. Martin in the Fields. He married in 1694 and had a son, Jacques, who was born in 1703. He was apparently not a member of the Clockmakers' Company.

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