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A George I ebony and brass-mounted striking bracket clock with pull quarter repeat
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A George I ebony and brass-mounted striking bracket clock with pull quarter repeat

JOSEPH WINDMILLS, LONDON. CIRCA 1715

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A George I ebony and brass-mounted striking bracket clock with pull quarter repeat
Joseph Windmills, London. Circa 1715
The case with brass handle to inverted bell top, two glazed side panels to each side, with engraved brass escutcheon and silk backed quarter frets to the front door, the moulded base raised on later bracket feet, the 7 1/3in. wide brass dial with chevron-engraved border and female mask-and-foliate spandrels to a silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with sword hilt half hour and lozenge half quarter hour markers, with strike/no strike lever by 15, the matted centre with mock pendulum aperture, with blued steel hands, signed below the arch WINDMILLS LONDON, with engraved inverted cornucopiae flanking a subsidiary silvered date ring, its matted centre with cut-out star design, the twin fusee (gut lines) five pillar movement with verge escapement, with hour strike on bell and pull quarter repeat on six nested bells, the back plate elaborately engraved with foliate scrolls and signed on a central reserve Jos. Windmills London, with later blued steel securing brackets to the case
17¾in. (45cm.) high
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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
J.A. Neale Joseph and Thomas Windmills, Antiquarian Horological Society, 1999.
A dial of related design, with Joseph Windmills' distinctive star calendar and also engraved with cornucopiae is illustrated p.171, fig.5.60.
One of the pre-eminent makers of the latter part of the 17th and beginning of the 18th century, Joseph Windmills origins are obscure, but Jim Neale (op.cit) suggests a date of birth in the period 1640/50. In 1671 he was a Free Brother in the Clockmakers' Company. He was then made Assistant in 1691, Warden in 1699 and Master in 1702. He first worked at St. Martins le Grand and by 1687 was at Mark Lane End, Tower Street.