CLAUDIUS DE CHESNE, LONDON. CIRCA 1720

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A George I red lacquered quarter chiming table clock with calendar and moonphase
Claudius De Chesne, London. Circa 1720
The case decorated overall with raised gilt Chinoiserie figures and birds within landscapes with foliage, the inverted bell top with original delicately pierced wood gallery frets to all four sides surmounted and flanked by brass urn finials, the glazed sides overlaid with further frets and fitted with gilt-brass baluster drop handles, brass-capped ¾-columns to the front and rear doors, the base on brass bun feet and fitted with a key drawer to the rear, the dial signed Claudius Du Chesne Londini on a silvered oval disc in the matted centre with calendar and mock pendulum aperture, silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring, Chronos mask-and-foliate lower spandrels, the upper spandrels cast of Diana and Apollo, the foliate engraved arch set with subsidiary silvered rings for the age and phase of the moon above an aperture with revolving silvered disc engraved with the day of the week (in French) and the relevant deity, flanked by pendulum regulation on the left and Sonne/Silance on the right, the massive movement with eight ringed pillars, triple chain fusees, verge escapement with pendulum suspended from a foliate engraved regulation bar rising and falling on a foliate engraved snail, the quarters chiming on a nest of six bells via six hammers and pin barrel, hour strike on a further bell, the backplate profusely engraved with symmetrical scrolling foliage inhabited with two caryatides flanking beneath a central grotesque mask
30 in. (76 cm.) high

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拍品專文

Claudius Du Chesne (sp) was a French clockmaker who emigrated from Paris to London in about 1689. Information from the Clockmakers' Company records records him living in St. Anne's Westminster and taking on Richard Bullock as an apprentice in 1715, although he no doubt retained others. In 1718 he was excused Stewardship ....because he has five children and pleads inability (to pay).
Duchesne is noted for making musical and complicated clocks; a pair of silver-mounted ebony musical bracket clocks with their original wall brackets and interchangable musical cylinders exist in the Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen.