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A William III red tortoiseshell, ebonised and brass-mounted eight day striking table clock

GEORGE STEVENS, LONDON. CIRCA 1690

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A William III red tortoiseshell, ebonised and brass-mounted eight day striking table clock
George Stevens, London. Circa 1690
The case with cast brass eagle-headed scroll handle to pierced repoussé basket top decorated with cherubs and cornucopiae, with knop finials to the angles, glazed rectangular side panels, repoussé brass running scroll mount to the front door top rail, raised on replaced brass ball feet, the 6 in. square dial with scored line border and winged cherub mask spandrels to silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with fleur-de-lys half hour markers date aperture with pin hole adjustment to matted centre, cut steel hands, with strike/silent lever above XII, the movement secured to the case with turn catches and with two replaced brass brackets to the lower back plate, six slender ringed pillars, twin line and fusees and restored knife edge verge escapement, inside rack strike on vertically positioned bell, the back plate engraved with a scored line border and with tulips around a signature cartouche George Stevens/in Drewry Lane/London; formerly with Dutch strike and trip repeat; winding key, two case keys
12¾ in. (32 cm.) high, handle down

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Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Dawson, Drover & Parkes, Early English Clocks, Woodbridge, 1982

George Stevens was a Freeman of the Clockmakers' Company 1673-1694 and is described as a 'servant' to Daniel Quare. An ebony table clock by Henry Jones of related design to the present clock may be seen in Dawson, Drover & Parkes (op. cit, p.456, pls.668-669). Tortoiseshell veneers were preserved for what Dawson, Drover & Parkes describe as a 'better class' of clock at this period.

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