JAMES JENKINS, LONDON, CIRCA 1700 AND LATER

Details

A William and Mary walnut and floral marquetry longcase clock
James Jenkins, London, Circa 1700 and later
The 11 in. square dial with cherub mask and foliate spandrels and with engraving to the cardinal points, silvered chapter ring with narrow minute track, signed James Jenkins Londini fecit, matted centre with subsidiary seconds ring and ringed winding holes, engraving around the date aperture, blued steel hands (minute hand mostly replaced), the eight day movement with six ringed pillars (four still latched), anchor escapement and rack strike on bell; the case with restorations, replacements and some reveneering; pendulum, two brass weights
80 in. (203 cm.) high

Provenance

Possibly Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham and 7th Earl of Winchilsea (d.1730)
Possibly either Nottingham House, London or Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland and by descent to Lady Elizabeth Finch (1704-1784).
Lady Elizabeth Finch married William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (1705-1793) in 1738.
Probably Kenwood House, London.
Removed to Scone Palace prior to the auction at Kenwood in 1922.

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Lot Essay

The case, for the clock by the Strand clock-maker James Jenkins, is mosaiced with flowered medallions in the Louis Quatorze 'Roman' fashion. It is likely to have been commissioned by Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham and 7th Earl of Winchilsea (d.1730), and may be that featured in the hall at Burley-on-the Hill, Rutland in the 1920s (C. Hussey, 'Burley-on-the-Hill' II, Country Life, 17th February, 1923, p. 215, fig. 8). Similar marquetry features on a clock-case attributed to the late 17th century Edinburgh cabinet-makers Robert and Thomas Moubray (F. Bamford, A Dictionary of Edinburgh Furniture Makers, Leeds, 1983, p.90 and pl. 1).

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