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DANIEL QUARE, LONDON; CIRCA 1700
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A Queen Anne ebonised grande sonnerie bracket clock
Daniel Quare, London; circa 1700
The case with Quare's typical elaborate double-S baluster handle to the gilt-metal mounted cushion-moulded top now cut beneath the mouldings and provided with hinges enabling the lid to be tipped forward, original glazed doors to the sides with early ebony mouldings, later gilt-metal mounts to the front door and sides, the later 8 x 9 in. dial with silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with blued steel hands, the matted centre with ringed winding holes and decorated mock pendulum and calendar apertures, foliate spandrels encompassing the subsidary silvered rings for: pendulum regulation, strike/silent, repeat/not repeat and pendulum fast/pendulum lose, the very substantial movement with six ringed pillars, triple fusees, re-built verge escapement, the movement now with grande sonnerie strike on six bells with hour strike on further bell, later rise-and-fall regualtion bar and later rack work and backplate cover, later pendulum holdfast clamps, the backplate intricately engraved with scrolling foliage and signed in the centre Dan. Quare London within a wheatear engraved oval reserve, later movement securing brackets; later dial; the case and movement adapted
18 ins. 46 cm. high
Daniel Quare, London; circa 1700
The case with Quare's typical elaborate double-S baluster handle to the gilt-metal mounted cushion-moulded top now cut beneath the mouldings and provided with hinges enabling the lid to be tipped forward, original glazed doors to the sides with early ebony mouldings, later gilt-metal mounts to the front door and sides, the later 8 x 9 in. dial with silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with blued steel hands, the matted centre with ringed winding holes and decorated mock pendulum and calendar apertures, foliate spandrels encompassing the subsidary silvered rings for: pendulum regulation, strike/silent, repeat/not repeat and pendulum fast/pendulum lose, the very substantial movement with six ringed pillars, triple fusees, re-built verge escapement, the movement now with grande sonnerie strike on six bells with hour strike on further bell, later rise-and-fall regualtion bar and later rack work and backplate cover, later pendulum holdfast clamps, the backplate intricately engraved with scrolling foliage and signed in the centre Dan. Quare London within a wheatear engraved oval reserve, later movement securing brackets; later dial; the case and movement adapted
18 ins. 46 cm. high