A Charles II walnut, olivewood and marquetry longcase clock

EDWARD STANTON, LONDON. CASE AND DIAL CIRCA 1685, MOVEMENT 19TH CENTURY

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A Charles II walnut, olivewood and marquetry longcase clock
Edward Stanton, London. Case and dial circa 1685, movement 19th Century
The case on bun feet supporting the plinth with an ebony quatrefoil panel delicately inlaid with a gadrooned urn filled with tulips and roses with green stained bone leaves, within an olivewood oyster and a walnut border, the rectangular door with ebony-framed circular lenticle and four further panels of floral marquetry with green stained bone leaves, the central panel of an urn with mask-and-foliate decoration issuing flowers and centred by a bird, olivewood oysters and ebonised mouldings, the sides veneered with a single strip of oysters within a walnut frame, convex throat moulding to the reconverted rising hood with ebonised twist columns, the flat top with later frieze fret, the 9 7/8in. square dial signed Edward Stanton Fecit beneath the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with half and half-quarter hour markers, later(?) elaborately pierced steel hands, the matted centre with seconds ring and calendar aperture, the later (19th Century) four pillar movement with anchor escapement and rack strike on a bell
6ft.3in. (190cm.) high

Lot Essay

Stanton, Edward. Apprenticed December 1655 to Nathaniel Allen and freed January 1662/63. Assistant in the Clockmakers' Company from 1682, Warden from 1693 and was Master in in 1697. Believed to have died in 1715.

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