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ANDREW PRIME, LONDON
細節
A Charles II Thirty-Hour Longcase clock Movement with Alarm
Andrew Prime, London
The 11in. square brass dial profusely engraved with tulips, daffodils and scrolling foliage, signed in the centre within a drapery lambrequein Andrew Prime Londini Fecit, narrow silvered chapter ring with Roman chapters and quarter-hour markers, single blued steel hand with large tail indicating against a rosette-engraved central alarm disc, the spandrels engraved with cornucopiae of tulips, the birdcage movement with brass pillars and plates, the pillars of rectangular section secured with screwed nuts to the top and bottom, restored escapement with steel suspended pendulum with Knibb-type butterfly rating nut, countwheel hour strike and alarm on large bell with half hour strike on smaller bell, the later purpose-made case with panelled rectangular trunk door and similarly panelled sides, the rising hood with architectural pediment and gilt-metal mounts, convex moulding to the plinth on brass bun feet
85½in. (217cm.) high
Andrew Prime, London
The 11in. square brass dial profusely engraved with tulips, daffodils and scrolling foliage, signed in the centre within a drapery lambrequein Andrew Prime Londini Fecit, narrow silvered chapter ring with Roman chapters and quarter-hour markers, single blued steel hand with large tail indicating against a rosette-engraved central alarm disc, the spandrels engraved with cornucopiae of tulips, the birdcage movement with brass pillars and plates, the pillars of rectangular section secured with screwed nuts to the top and bottom, restored escapement with steel suspended pendulum with Knibb-type butterfly rating nut, countwheel hour strike and alarm on large bell with half hour strike on smaller bell, the later purpose-made case with panelled rectangular trunk door and similarly panelled sides, the rising hood with architectural pediment and gilt-metal mounts, convex moulding to the plinth on brass bun feet
85½in. (217cm.) high
來源
The Vitale Collection of Highly Important European Clocks, Part II, 26th November, 1996, lot 246
出版
Tom Robinson, The Longcase Clock, Woodbridge, 1995, pp.220, 224-5, pl. 229-301
Andrew Prime, 1619-1710, was one of the 'fathers' of early English clockmaking. Born the son of a weaver in Norwich he was made free in 1646. He was closely associated with the Fromanteel family whose family also came from Norwich. Prime married Ahasuerus's sister in 1646 and had three children, the youngest of which, Abraham, worked for his father.
Andrew Prime, 1619-1710, was one of the 'fathers' of early English clockmaking. Born the son of a weaver in Norwich he was made free in 1646. He was closely associated with the Fromanteel family whose family also came from Norwich. Prime married Ahasuerus's sister in 1646 and had three children, the youngest of which, Abraham, worked for his father.