THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
A Queen Anne quarter repeating miniature bracket timepiece with alarm and pull quarter repeat
SIMON DECHARMES. LONDON, CIRCA 1720
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A Queen Anne quarter repeating miniature bracket timepiece with alarm and pull quarter repeat
Simon DeCharmes. London, circa 1720
The case with brass handle to the inverted bell top, glazed sides and on block feet, the dial signed Simon DeCharmes London on the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with pierced blued steel hands, finely matted centre, winged cherub spandrels, revolving silvered alarm disc in the arch with blued steel alarm-set hand, the tiny five pillar single fusee (wirelines) movement with verge escapement, pull quarter repeat on two bells via three hammers with its engraved pulley on the back-plate, similarly engraved alarm pulley on the alternate side to the back-plate with strike on bell, the back-plate engraved with a basket of flowers among scrolling foliage and within formal strapwork centred at the bottom by a resplendent eagle
9½ in. (24 cm.) high
Simon DeCharmes. London, circa 1720
The case with brass handle to the inverted bell top, glazed sides and on block feet, the dial signed Simon DeCharmes London on the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with pierced blued steel hands, finely matted centre, winged cherub spandrels, revolving silvered alarm disc in the arch with blued steel alarm-set hand, the tiny five pillar single fusee (wirelines) movement with verge escapement, pull quarter repeat on two bells via three hammers with its engraved pulley on the back-plate, similarly engraved alarm pulley on the alternate side to the back-plate with strike on bell, the back-plate engraved with a basket of flowers among scrolling foliage and within formal strapwork centred at the bottom by a resplendent eagle
9½ in. (24 cm.) high