THO: TOMPION, LONDON, NO.287: A WILLIAM III EBONY STRIKING BRACKET CLOCK

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THO: TOMPION, LONDON, NO.287: A WILLIAM III EBONY STRIKING BRACKET CLOCK
circa 1700
The case on block feet with foliate soundfret and escutcheons to the door with further mount to the base, punch numbered 287 on the cill, later acanthus tied handle to domed top, the 7¼ x 8in. dial signed Tho: Tompion Londini fecit in a reserve to the top within engraved ribbon tied foliate swags flanked by subsidiary rings for strike/silent and regulation, silvered chapter ring, the matted centre with mock pendulum and calendar aperture with pinhole adjustment, pierced blued hands, double-screwed mask and foliate spandrels, latches to the dial feet and to the seven ringed pillar twin fusee movement with reconverted verge escapement with spring suspended pendulum, unusual pull trip quarter repeat from either side via interconnecting right-angled blued steel levers, the backplate profusely engraved with scrolling acanthus with repeat signature within acanthus oval, punch numbered 287 to base, secured with screws into bottom pillars through base and with brackets to case, with contemporary velvet lined oak travelling case with iron carrying handles, hinges, lock and hasp
15½in. (39.5cm.) high

來源

Anon. sale, Sotheby & Co., 13 December 1963
Bought from R A Lee, 3 January 1964 (2350
The travelling case; from R A Lee, 8 January 1969 (650

拍品專文

Thomas Tompion, London, born Northill, Beds. 1639
Clockmakers' Company 1671, Master 1704, died 1713. Took into partnership Edward Banger 1702-08, and in 1711 George Graham who succeeded to the business on Tompion's death

The travelling case with this clock, though not original to it, is a very rare survival. A very similar Tompion clock of the same period is illustrated with its travelling case in Britten, Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers, 6th ed. 1932, fig. 463-64.