拍品 27
27
A Charles II walnut, kingwood and laburnum oyster-veneered, ebonised and parquetry inlaid striking longcase clock of month duration
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A Charles II walnut, kingwood and laburnum oyster-veneered, ebonised and parquetry inlaid striking longcase clock of month duration

THOMAS TOMPION, LONDON. CIRCA 1680/85

細節
A Charles II walnut, kingwood and laburnum oyster-veneered, ebonised and parquetry inlaid striking longcase clock of month duration
Thomas Tompion, London. Circa 1680/85
The case now with forward-sliding hood with cushion moulding to the cornice and spiral-twist columns, with conforming pilasters to the rear, the front door within moulded frame and with parquetry inlays within ebony line inlays, lenticle glass, the sides oyster-veneered, with matching inlays to plinth panel, raised on later bun feet, the 10 1/8 in. square brass dial with engraved border interrupted at the lower edge with a signature within rectangular reserve for Tho: Tompion London Fecit, the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with sword-hilt half hour markers, matted centre with subsidiary seconds ring and date aperture, original blued steel hands, the fully-latched movement with six ringed pillars, anchor escapement, bolt-and-shutter maintaining power, with high position countwheel for strike on later bell, with movement securing bracket; replaced seatboard, lacking backboard bracket, the case with restorations and possibly associated to movement; two replaced brass weights, replaced pendulum, crank key, case key
76¾ in. (195 cm.) high
來源
Meyrick Neilsen, Tetbury
出版
Antiquarian Horology, Volume Six, September 1969, p.93, advertisement by Meyrick Neilson
注意事項
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
R.W. Symonds, Thomas Tompion, His Life and Work, London, 1951, p.59, figs.20-21
R.W. Symonds, A Book of English Clocks, London, 1947, p.34, fig.A
Eric Bruton, The Wetherfield Collection of Clocks, London, 1981, pp.127-134, figs.75, 77, 78, 80, 82, 83
Herbert Cescinsky, The Old English Master Clockmakers and Their Clocks, London, 1938, p.56, figs.70-71

Symonds (op.cit, 1951) and Cescinsky (op.cit.) show a Tompion month-going parquetry longcase (No.69) with an almost identical dial to the present clock and with corner 'fan' inlays of similar design. A Tompion month-going parquetry longcase with very similar dial was advertised by G.E. Marsh, Antiquarian Horology, June 1976.