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Daniel Quare London: A fine Charles II bur walnut month-going longcase clock, the convex moulded case with later skirting to the plinth with feather-banded central panel, rectangular trunk door with central lenticle, the hood with shallow caddy top above the pierced wood sound fret supported on brass-capped 3/4-columns, the 11in.sq. dial signed Daniel Quare London on the silvered chapter ring, the matted centre with subsidiary seconds ring decorated calendar aperture and ringed winding holes with bolt-and-shutter maintaining power, typical blued hands, foliate winged cherub spandrels, latches to the 6 (1 missing) ringed pillar movement with anchor escapement, large outside countwheel strike on bell above, pull cord for maintaining power, associated
Details
Daniel Quare London: A fine Charles II bur walnut month-going longcase clock, the convex moulded case with later skirting to the plinth with feather-banded central panel, rectangular trunk door with central lenticle, the hood with shallow caddy top above the pierced wood sound fret supported on brass-capped 3/4-columns, the 11in.sq. dial signed Daniel Quare London on the silvered chapter ring, the matted centre with subsidiary seconds ring decorated calendar aperture and ringed winding holes with bolt-and-shutter maintaining power, typical blued hands, foliate winged cherub spandrels, latches to the 6 (1 missing) ringed pillar movement with anchor escapement, large outside countwheel strike on bell above, pull cord for maintaining power, associated
7ft.2in. (218cm.) high.
7ft.2in. (218cm.) high.
Provenance
The Hon. R.G. de B Devereux, and thence by family descent