Lot Essay
John Allaway apprenticed in 1681 and was made Free of the Clockmakers' Company in 1695
JOHN ALLAWAY, LONDON, CIRCA 1700
Details
A WILLIAM AND MARY WALNUT AND FLORAL MARQUETRY LONGCASE CLOCK
john allaway, london, circa 1700
The 11in. sq. brass dial with silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring, pierced blued steel hands, the matted center with subsidiary seconds ring, ringed winding holes, decorated calendar aperature and rosette-engraved center, the foliate engraved border interrupted by winged cherub-and-foliate spandrels and signed at the base John Allaway, London, the five pillar two train movement with restored bolt-and-shutter maintaining power, anchor escapement and outside countwheel strike on bell, the case with formerly rising flat-top hood with ¾-columns flanking the door border-inlaid with trailing floral marquetry, simiarly inlaid convex throat molding to the rectangular trunk door inlaid with boxwood and ebony D-ended panels decorated with floral marquetry inhabited with songbirds, glazed lenticle, similarly inlaid plinth on later skirt
81in. (206cm.) high
john allaway, london, circa 1700
The 11in. sq. brass dial with silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring, pierced blued steel hands, the matted center with subsidiary seconds ring, ringed winding holes, decorated calendar aperature and rosette-engraved center, the foliate engraved border interrupted by winged cherub-and-foliate spandrels and signed at the base John Allaway, London, the five pillar two train movement with restored bolt-and-shutter maintaining power, anchor escapement and outside countwheel strike on bell, the case with formerly rising flat-top hood with ¾-columns flanking the door border-inlaid with trailing floral marquetry, simiarly inlaid convex throat molding to the rectangular trunk door inlaid with boxwood and ebony D-ended panels decorated with floral marquetry inhabited with songbirds, glazed lenticle, similarly inlaid plinth on later skirt
81in. (206cm.) high
Literature
Derek Roberts, British Longcase Clocks, Schiffer, 1993, pp.56-7, figs. 80 A+B & back cover