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ISSAC DU HAMEL, LONDON; SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
细节
A George II tortoiseshell boulle and silver-mounted striking bracket clock with silent escapement
Issac Du Hamel, London; second quarter 18th century
The case with premier partie brass boulle inlay in typical foliate design with foliate cast ormolu mounts to the shoulders centred by an Indian mask, straight glazed sides supported on foliate ormolu claw feet, the dial signed Issac Du Hamel London on a silvered sector beneath the silvered chapter ring with pierced blued steel hands, the gilt matted centre with mock pendulum and calendar apertures, the silver spandrels in the lower section cast with scrolling foliage with central baskets of flowers and two facing masks beneath the signature plaque, the upper spandrels again of scolling foliage with central eagle heads, the arch with a silvered and blued steel pendulum regulation ring with blued steel hand and gilt matted centre, the five ringed pillar twin chain fusee movement with silent verge escapement, pull quarter repeat on six bells via six hammers with hour strike on further bell, pendulum regulation bar across the plates to the steel spring suspended pendulum for the verge escapement, the backplate and repeat pulley engraved with scrolling foliage within a wheatear border with pendulum holdfast;
the backplate illustrated on page 97
16¾ ins. 42.5 cm. high
Issac Du Hamel, London; second quarter 18th century
The case with premier partie brass boulle inlay in typical foliate design with foliate cast ormolu mounts to the shoulders centred by an Indian mask, straight glazed sides supported on foliate ormolu claw feet, the dial signed Issac Du Hamel London on a silvered sector beneath the silvered chapter ring with pierced blued steel hands, the gilt matted centre with mock pendulum and calendar apertures, the silver spandrels in the lower section cast with scrolling foliage with central baskets of flowers and two facing masks beneath the signature plaque, the upper spandrels again of scolling foliage with central eagle heads, the arch with a silvered and blued steel pendulum regulation ring with blued steel hand and gilt matted centre, the five ringed pillar twin chain fusee movement with silent verge escapement, pull quarter repeat on six bells via six hammers with hour strike on further bell, pendulum regulation bar across the plates to the steel spring suspended pendulum for the verge escapement, the backplate and repeat pulley engraved with scrolling foliage within a wheatear border with pendulum holdfast;
the backplate illustrated on page 97
16¾ ins. 42.5 cm. high
出版
Richard C. R. Barder, The Georgian Bracket Clock, Woodbridge, 1993, pp. 56 & 57, illus. pl. II/35