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A QUEEN ANNE BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED QUARTER-CHIMING LONGCASE CLOCK WITH CALENDAR

BY SIMON DECHARMES, LONDON, EARLY 18TH CENTURY, THE QUARTER CHIME TRAIN LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A QUEEN ANNE BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED QUARTER-CHIMING LONGCASE CLOCK WITH CALENDAR
BY SIMON DECHARMES, LONDON, EARLY 18TH CENTURY, THE QUARTER CHIME TRAIN LATE 19TH CENTURY
The molded rectangular pediment with a pierced foliate giltwood superstructure terminating in a flaming urn finial the glazed door enclosing an engraved brass dial signed DeCharmes, London with Roman and Arabic chapter ring with half and quarter markers, later blued steel hands, the matted centre with calendar aperture and seconds ring, the foliate engraved dial plate with subsidiary rings to the spandrels for Will Chime/Will not Chime, pendulum regulation, day of week with the corresponding deity and the month with corresponding sign of the zodiac, and later repeat slide, the three-train movement with anchor escapement, chiming on a later nest of six bells and hour strike on a further bell, the case and rectangular door decorated throughout with gilt chinoiserie on black ground, the movement with restorations and alterations
104 in. (264 cm.) high, 21 in. (54 cm.) wide, 11 in. (28 cm.) deep

來源

James B. Duke, and by descent.

注意事項

Christie's is selling all lots in this sale as agent for an organization which holds a State of New York Exempt Organization certificate. Seller explicitly reserves all trademark and trade name rights and rights of privacy and publicity in the name and image of Doris Duke. No buyer of any property in this sale will acquire any right to use the Doris Duke name or image. Seller further explicitly reserves all copyright rights in designs or other copyrightable works included in the property offered for sale. No buyer of any property in the sale will acquire the rights to reproduce, distribute copies of, or prepare derivative works of such designs or copyrightable works.

拍品專文

Simon De Charmes or Des Charmes is first recorded in 1688 and was a freeman of the Clockmaker's Company between 1691 and 1730. A red lacquer bracket clock also by De Charmes is illustrated in Cescinsky and Webster, English Domestic Clocks, London, 1914.

The fine japanned decoration found on the present clock is typical of the fashion in the late 17th and early 18th centuries for 'india japan' as favored by Queen Mary, and recorded in the 1696 inventory of her bedchamber at Kensington Palace. The use of japanned decoration was promoted by John Stalker and George Parker's A Treatise of Japanning and Varnishing, published in Oxford in 1688. It was produced from a necessity to supply the increasing demand for lacquered wares difficult to import from the East and assist those who ...have need to be instructed, and to the disgrace of the Title lurk and shelter themselves under the notion of Japanners, Painters and Guilders, etc.

The current clock displays similarities to the designs published by Stalker and Parker, in particular the flower-filled vase to the door of the case is close in design to plate 14 and the figures above are related to plate 16, inscribed Severall Figures to be plased as Occasion servdh in Jappan Worke.