TOMPION & BANGER LONDON, N0.441: A QUEEN ANNE EBONY STRIKING LARGE BRACKET CLOCK

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TOMPION & BANGER LONDON, N0.441: A QUEEN ANNE EBONY STRIKING LARGE BRACKET CLOCK
circa 1707
The case on giltmetal gadrooned feet, glazed sides, giltmetal foliate soundfret to door with foliate escutcheons, punch numbered 441 on cill, large foliate giltmetal carrying handle to inverted bell top with four multi-piece giltmetal urn finials, the 7¼ x 8¼in. dial signed Tho: Tompion & Edw Banger London within foliate engraving and flanked by subsidiary dials for strike/silent and regulation, silvered chapter ring, the matted centre with false pendulum aperture, pierced blued hands, double-screwed mask and foliate spandrels, latches to the dial feet and the seven ringed pillars of the massive twin fusee (wire lines) movement with re-converted verge escapement and spring suspended pendulum, pull quarter repeat on Tompion's system from either side via interconnecting steel double-cocked levers mounted on the profusely engraved backplate, similarly signed within an oval reserve punch numbered 441 interrupting the line engraved border, secured through base with screws into base pillars and with brackets to case, possibly associated
18in. (46cm.) high

來源

Sold at Sotheby & Co., 20 May 1949
Sold at Sotheby & Co., 30 October 1953, lot 81
Bought from Garrard & Co., 12 July 1955 (1425

拍品專文

Thomas Tompion, London, see biographical notes lot 29
The case of this imposing clock with its giltmetal feet, mounts and finials is related to a limited group of large-sized bracket clocks by Tompion, including a very similar but slightly smaller example, No.418, a month going clock No.273, and a three-train grande sonnerie clock No.300, all illustrated in R W Symonds, Thomas Tompion, 1951, fig. 128-29, 131