BY HENRY JAMES IN THE TEMPLE, CIRCA 1695 AND LATER

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A William and Mary ebony-veneered and brass-mounted striking table clock
BY HENRY JAMES IN THE TEMPLE, CIRCA 1695 AND LATER
The case with silk-backed basket top and glazed side panels, 6¾ in. square brass dial with cherub mask spandrels to silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring, fleur-de-lys half hour markers and cross half quarter hour markers, strike/silent above XII, gilt matted centre, replaced blued steel hands, the twin gut fusee movement with six ringed and latched pillars, knife edge verge escapement (re-instated) with later back cock, hour strike on one bell and pull quarter repeat on another, the back plate engraved with foliate scrolls and tulips, signed Henry Jones/in the Temple within a cartouche, brass wish-bone click springs, secured to the case with bolts through the lower pillars; strike and repeat trains re-instated, base section replaced; two case keys, winding key
13½ in. (34 cm.) high, handle down

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Lot Essay

One of the most highly regarded clockmakers of the 17th Century, Henry Jones was born circa 1642. Apprenticed in 1654 he became free of the Clockmakers' Company in 1663. Jones worked in Inner Temple Lane and is recorded there from 1675 and many of his clocks are signed, as with the present example, 'Henry Jones in the Temple'. He was an Assistant in the Clockmakers' Company from 1676, Warden 1687-1690 and Master in 1691. After his death in 1695 his widow, Hannah, took over the business. His son, also Henry, became a clockmaker after completing his apprenticeship in 1697.

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