A WILLIAM AND MARY WALNUT AND FLORAL MARQUETRY MINIATURE LONGCASE CLOCK

CHARLES GOODE, LONDON, CIRCA 1695

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A WILLIAM AND MARY WALNUT AND FLORAL MARQUETRY MINIATURE LONGCASE CLOCK
charles goode, london, circa 1695
The 7in. sq. dial with skeletonized silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with pierced blued steel hands, subsidiary seconds ring at XII ringed winding holes and decorated calendar aperture, winged cherub spandrels, signed beneath the chapter ring Charles Goode, London, the movement with five ringed pillars, anchor escapement, high position outside countwheel strike on bell above, the case with forward-sliding hood, foliate pierced wood soundfret to the frieze, the florally inlaid door flanked by twist columns, similarly inlaid convex throat moulding above the rectangular trunk door inlaid with floral marquetry inhabited with songbirds within ebony and boxwood-lined D-ended panels, the similarly inlaid plinth on later bun feet
68in. (173cm.) high

来源

The Wetherfield Collection

出版

Eric Bruton, The Wetherfield Collection, N.A.G., 1981, p. 149, fig. 103 P.G. Dawson, C.B. Drover and D.W. Parkes, Early English Clocks, Antique Collectors Club, 1982, p. 264, col. pl. 13
Tom Robinson, The Longcase Clock, Antique Collectors Club, 1981, p. 19, col. pl. 3

拍品专文

Charles Goode, d. 1730 is recorded as Free of the Clockmakers' Company in 1686. Very little biographical information exists but the quality of his clocks, particularly his marquetry clocks, were of a very high standard.
The present clock is pictured in the Wetherfield collection book op. cit. with a later caddy top and skirted plinth. True miniature longcase clocks are very rare indeed and highly sought after. Two of the best known are by Joseph Knibb; one in a marquetry case, and the other ebony which was sold in these rooms property of the late Samuel Messer, December 5, 1991, lot 38.