PROPERTY FROM THE NEW YORK RESIDENCE OF JOHN W. KLUGE (LOTS 331-336)

A WILLIAM AND MARY OYSTER-VENEERED OLIVEWOOD, EBONIZED AND MARQUETRY LONGCASE CLOCK

JOSEPH WINDMILLS, LONDON, CIRCA 1685, THE CARVED CRESTING OF A LATER DATE

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A WILLIAM AND MARY OYSTER-VENEERED OLIVEWOOD, EBONIZED AND MARQUETRY LONGCASE CLOCK
JOSEPH WINDMILLS, LONDON, CIRCA 1685, THE CARVED CRESTING OF A LATER DATE
The rising hood with spiral colonettes and later cherub and scroll cresting, the case with bird and floral marquetry and similarly inlaid base on flattened bun feet, the two-train eight-day movement with anchor escapement, five ringed pillars and bolt-and-shutter maintaining power, the brass dial with silvered chapter ring and matt center centered by a seconds dial and calender aperture and with maker's signature below within cherub spandrels, the interior door with printed paper label of Lord and Lady Harris and numbered C26
80 in. (203 cm.) high

Lot Essay

One of the pre-eminent makers of the latter part of the 17th and beginning of the 18th century, Joseph Windmills' origins are obscure, but Jim Neale (J.A. Neale, Joseph and Thomas Windmills, Antiquarian Horological Society, 1999) suggests a date of birth in the period 1640/50. In 1671 he was a Free Brother in the Clockmakers' Company. He was then made Assistant in 1691, Warden in 1699 and Master in 1702. He first worked at St. Martins le Grand and by 1687 was at Mark Lane End, Tower Street.

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