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WINDMILLS. CIRCA 1710
Details
A Queen Anne ebonised striking eight day table clock with pull quarter repeat
Windmills. Circa 1710
The case with brass handle to the bell top, later pierced frets above glazed side panels, the 7 in. wide brass dial with silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with fleur-de-lys half hour markers, with date square to engraved centre, silvered plaque signed Windmills, London flanked by two subsidiary rings for strike/silent and pendulum regulation above pierced and engraved arcaded gallery, blued steel hands, the twin line and fusees movement with five ringed pillars, reconverted verge escapement, hour strike on bell and re-instated pull quarter repeat on a nest of six bells; pendulum, door key
18½ in. (47 cm.) high, handle down
Windmills. Circa 1710
The case with brass handle to the bell top, later pierced frets above glazed side panels, the 7 in. wide brass dial with silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with fleur-de-lys half hour markers, with date square to engraved centre, silvered plaque signed Windmills, London flanked by two subsidiary rings for strike/silent and pendulum regulation above pierced and engraved arcaded gallery, blued steel hands, the twin line and fusees movement with five ringed pillars, reconverted verge escapement, hour strike on bell and re-instated pull quarter repeat on a nest of six bells; pendulum, door key
18½ in. (47 cm.) high, handle down
Provenance
Sotheby's London, 27 October 1983.
Literature
Illustrated, J.A. Neale Joseph and Thomas Windmills, Clock and Watch Makers 1671-1737, The Antiquarian Horological Society, 1999 p.183, pl.5.72; Richard C Barder, The Georgian Bracket Clock 1714-1830, Antique Collectors' Club, 1993, p.57, pl.II/37.
Special notice
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