Details
A Queen Anne ebony bracket timepiece with pull quarter repeat
Thomas Tompion London. No. 479
The case with foliate cast gilt-metal handle to the domed top, gilt-metal foliate cast sound fret (original pierced ebony fret in the dial mask behind) and escutcheon to the front door punch-numbered 479 on the cill, glazed sides and on block feet, the 6 x 6in. gilt dial signed Tho Tompion & Edw Banger London, above the silvered chapter ring with typical sword-hilt half-hour markers and pierced blued steel hands, double-screwed mask-and-foliate spandrels, latches to the dial feet and to the six ringed pillars of the substantial movement, gut fusee, knife-edge verge escapement, restored? pull quarter repeat on two bells on Tompion's system from either side via two double-cocked blued steel levers, the backplate heavily engraved with scrolling foliage, punch-numbered 479 at the base beneath the repeat signature Tho Tompion & Edw Banger London engraved within a foliate engraved oval cartouche; now with an oak travelling case of contemporary date.
14in. (37cm.) high
Provenance
Christie's, London, 27, October 1917
Christie's, London, 20, May 1971, lot 19
1987, with R.A. Lee, 1-9 Bruton Place, London and thence to the present owner
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