THE WORKS CIRCA 1685, BY JOSEPH KNIBB, LONDON
Details
A CHARLES II STYLE OYSTER-VENEERED, OLIVEWOOD, WALNUT AND MARQUETRY MONTH-GOING LONGCASE CLOCK
The works circa 1685, by Joseph Knibb, London
The 10in. square dial signed Joseph Knibb Londini fecit beneath the silvered chapter ring with typical blued steel hands, calendar aperture to the matted center, cherub-and-foliate spandrels, latches to the dial feet and to the five ringed pillars of the movement with outside counterwheel strike on a bell, arch or escapement, the hook-suspended pendulum with Knibb's butterfly rating nut, the later case with hood with overhanging molded pediment above a blind foliate-scroll frieze over a semi-engraved twisted column angles and pierced wood sound frets, the rectangular trunk door inlaid with centering medallion with a flower vase and bird marquetry with quarterfans and pinwheel roundels and with pendulum aperture, on a plinth centering a further roundel, the interior bearing a printed paper label from the Wetherfield Collection, numbered 189, illustration 31.31.A, Britten's book, fifth edition p. 507 and purchased by H.Pendelton Rogers 1928, and further inscribed 'This clock also shown in Cescinsky's English Furniture of the 18th Century, Vol.I, fig.272' and signed A.Vernay 1928, the case interior numbered 1881/87 in red chalk
77in. (196cm.) high
The works circa 1685, by Joseph Knibb, London
The 10in. square dial signed Joseph Knibb Londini fecit beneath the silvered chapter ring with typical blued steel hands, calendar aperture to the matted center, cherub-and-foliate spandrels, latches to the dial feet and to the five ringed pillars of the movement with outside counterwheel strike on a bell, arch or escapement, the hook-suspended pendulum with Knibb's butterfly rating nut, the later case with hood with overhanging molded pediment above a blind foliate-scroll frieze over a semi-engraved twisted column angles and pierced wood sound frets, the rectangular trunk door inlaid with centering medallion with a flower vase and bird marquetry with quarterfans and pinwheel roundels and with pendulum aperture, on a plinth centering a further roundel, the interior bearing a printed paper label from the Wetherfield Collection, numbered 189, illustration 31.31.A, Britten's book, fifth edition p. 507 and purchased by H.Pendelton Rogers 1928, and further inscribed 'This clock also shown in Cescinsky's English Furniture of the 18th Century, Vol.I, fig.272' and signed A.Vernay 1928, the case interior numbered 1881/87 in red chalk
77in. (196cm.) high
Provenance
David A.F. Wetherfield, Esq.
With Arthur S. Vernay, New York
Purchased by H.Pendelton Rogers in 1928
With Arthur S. Vernay, New York
Purchased by H.Pendelton Rogers in 1928
Literature
H.Cescinsky, English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, n.d., vol.I, fig.272
The Wetherfield Collection of English Clocks, Arthur S. Vernay, exhibition catalogue, 1928, p.24, no.21
E. Bruton, The Wethersfield Collection of Clocks, 1981, pp. 132-133, no. 82 (illustrated with plinth and additional hood moldings)
The Wetherfield Collection of English Clocks, Arthur S. Vernay, exhibition catalogue, 1928, p.24, no.21
E. Bruton, The Wethersfield Collection of Clocks, 1981, pp. 132-133, no. 82 (illustrated with plinth and additional hood moldings)