拍品專文
William Webster was apprenticed to and journeyman with Thomas Tompion. Free of the Clockmakers' Company in 1710, he was later a Warden and died in 1734.
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細節
A George I longcase clock movement, circa 1715, in later oak case
The 12 in. square brass dial with Indian mask and foliate spandrels to silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with fleur-de-lys half hour markers and diamond half quarter hour markers, matted centre with subsidiary seconds ring and date aperture, signed on a silvered oval plaque Wm Webster/London, blued steel hands, the eight day movement with five ringed pillars, anchor escapement and inside rack strike on bell; the associated case with inset columns to the hood with glazed side panels, simple trunk door with lenticle, on stepped plinth, mid 18th Century -- 78 in. (198 cm.) high; two brass weights, pendulum
The 12 in. square brass dial with Indian mask and foliate spandrels to silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with fleur-de-lys half hour markers and diamond half quarter hour markers, matted centre with subsidiary seconds ring and date aperture, signed on a silvered oval plaque Wm Webster/London, blued steel hands, the eight day movement with five ringed pillars, anchor escapement and inside rack strike on bell; the associated case with inset columns to the hood with glazed side panels, simple trunk door with lenticle, on stepped plinth, mid 18th Century -- 78 in. (198 cm.) high; two brass weights, pendulum
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