William Cattell Londini Fecit: A Charles II ebonised striking bracket clock, the case on gilt brass bun feet with foliate cast mounts to front door, glazed sides, the gilt repoussé basket top well cast with inhabited scrolling foliage and centred with a lion's mask, laurel-tied handle to top, the 6¼in. sq.dial with silvered chapter ring, matted centre, pierced blued hands, winged cherub spandrels, the five ringed pillar twin gut fusee movement with verge escapement, rosette-engraved and numbered outside countwheel strike on backplate signed William Cattell in Fleet Street Londini Fecit within tulip engraving, visible ratchet-and-clicks, pendulum hold-fast, securing brackets to case

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William Cattell Londini Fecit: A Charles II ebonised striking bracket clock, the case on gilt brass bun feet with foliate cast mounts to front door, glazed sides, the gilt repoussé basket top well cast with inhabited scrolling foliage and centred with a lion's mask, laurel-tied handle to top, the 6¼in. sq.dial with silvered chapter ring, matted centre, pierced blued hands, winged cherub spandrels, the five ringed pillar twin gut fusee movement with verge escapement, rosette-engraved and numbered outside countwheel strike on backplate signed William Cattell in Fleet Street Londini Fecit within tulip engraving, visible ratchet-and-clicks, pendulum hold-fast, securing brackets to case
12in. (30.5cm) high

Provenance

Ex. collection J.H. Millar, Esq. F.R.At.S.

Literature

P. G. Dawson, C. R. Drover & D. W. Parkes, Early English Clocks, London, 1982, pls. 438 and 608

Lot Essay

William Cattell, apprenticed Jan. 1664/5 to Edward Stanton and was freed in April 1672, died 1697.
Cattell appears to be a maverick clockmaker, this particular clock has qualities very similar to those from the workshop of Henry Jones and in contrast another longcase clock illustrated in Early English Clocks (op cit) pls. 365 and 366 also signed Cattell has all the qualities of a Knibb clock

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