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A Queen Anne month-going walnut longcase clock
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A Queen Anne month-going walnut longcase clock

THOMAS TOMPION & EDWARD BANGER, NO. 395. CIRCA 1705

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A Queen Anne month-going walnut longcase clock
Thomas Tompion & Edward Banger, No. 395. Circa 1705
The 11 in. square dial signed Tompion & Banger Londini Fecit within a planished reserve in the matted centre with subsidiary silvered seconds ring, ringed winding holes and calendar aperture with pin-hole adjustment, the silvered chapter ring with sword hilt half hour markers and delicate pierced blued steel hands, finely cast double-screwed mask-and-foliate spandrels, bolt-and-shutter maintaining power lever to the left side, latches to the dial feet and to the six ringed pillars of the two train movement with anchor escapement, the strike train with countwheel planted on the backplate punch-numbered 395 at the bottom in the centre, the associated well figured feather-banded case on plain skirt with convex moulding beneath the rectangular trunk door with foliate cast gilt-metal escutcheon, concave throat moulding to the hood with gilt-brass capped three-quarter columns flanking the door and supporting the restored caddy top with foliate pierced walnut sound frets and surmounted by two gilt-wood ball finials
7 ft. 6 in. (230 cm.) high
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拍品专文

During the first few years of the 18th century Tompion made a small series of longcase clocks having dials with ringed winding holes and the signature within a plannished cartouche in the matted centre. For other examples see British Clockmakers' Heritage Exhibition, May-Sept, 1952, p. IX, (No.395). The Irwin Untermyer collection, 1958, fig.10 (No.344). Dawson, Drover & Parkes, Early English Clocks, 1982, col. pl.14, p.264, pl.397, p.287 - the Petworth Tompion illustrated with a later plaque covering up the original cartouche signature. Sotheby's, London, 5 June, 1997, lot 322 (No.349).
The case for the present clock, although sadly not original to the movement, has a wonderful rich nutty-brown colour.