Details
Thomas Tompion, No. 212: A William and Mary ebonised striking bracket clock, circa 1695
The case with gilt foliate handle to domed top, glazed sides with pierced wood sound frets, the front door with gilt foliate cast sound fret to top rail, foliate cast lock-plates to sides and punch-numbered 212 on the cill, the 20 x 18.5cm. dial signed Thomas Tompion Londini Fecit within a foliate cartouche and flanked by similarly engraved subsidiary silvered sectors for regulation and strike/silent, the silvered chapter ring having a finely matted centre with mock pendulum aperture and pierced blued hands, double-screwed mask-and-foliate spandrels within a line-engraved border, latches to the dial feet and to the seven ringed-pillar twin gut fusee movement with re-converted verge escapement with spring-suspended foliate engraved pendulum, pull quarter repeat on two bells from either side on Tompion's system via inter-connecting single-cocked steel levers, the backplate profusely engraved with scrolling foliage with repeat signature to the centre with pendulum hold-fast within a foliate wreath, punch-numbered 212 on the base interrupting the line-engraved border; secured with screws through base into bottom pillars;
14¼in. (36.3cm.) high
The case with gilt foliate handle to domed top, glazed sides with pierced wood sound frets, the front door with gilt foliate cast sound fret to top rail, foliate cast lock-plates to sides and punch-numbered 212 on the cill, the 20 x 18.5cm. dial signed Thomas Tompion Londini Fecit within a foliate cartouche and flanked by similarly engraved subsidiary silvered sectors for regulation and strike/silent, the silvered chapter ring having a finely matted centre with mock pendulum aperture and pierced blued hands, double-screwed mask-and-foliate spandrels within a line-engraved border, latches to the dial feet and to the seven ringed-pillar twin gut fusee movement with re-converted verge escapement with spring-suspended foliate engraved pendulum, pull quarter repeat on two bells from either side on Tompion's system via inter-connecting single-cocked steel levers, the backplate profusely engraved with scrolling foliage with repeat signature to the centre with pendulum hold-fast within a foliate wreath, punch-numbered 212 on the base interrupting the line-engraved border; secured with screws through base into bottom pillars;
14¼in. (36.3cm.) high
Provenance
Geoffrey Blackwell, Esq., O.B.E.
Literature
R.W. Symonds, Thomas Tompion his life and work, London, 1951, pp. 149, 281, fig. 121
R.W. Symonds, Furniture in the collection of Mr. Geoffrey Blackwell, Part II, Apollo, 1936, vol. xxxiii, pp. 314-20, figs. I,IX, X & XII R.W. Symonds, A Book of English Clocks, London, 1947, p. 76, pl. 49
R.W. Symonds, Furniture in the collection of Mr. Geoffrey Blackwell, Part II, Apollo, 1936, vol. xxxiii, pp. 314-20, figs. I,IX, X & XII R.W. Symonds, A Book of English Clocks, London, 1947, p. 76, pl. 49