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拍品专文
Silver mounts were used rarely on clocks of this period, as few makers could afford the expense. Even the great Thomas Tompion (1631-1713) reserved them for his finest clocks. George Graham (1673-1751) used silver on his dials (see lot 24 and footnote) but less so on his cases. Other noteworthy examples include: a grande sonnerie table clock by Joseph Knibb and a Roman striking clock also by Knibb (Dawson, Drover and Parkes, Early English Clocks, Woodbridge, 1982, p. 317 and p. 336); two tortoiseshell-veneered clocks, by Peter Garon and George Etherington (Dawson, Drover and Parkes, p. 473) and a Windmills clock (Dawson, Drover and Parkes, p. 478).
The well-modelled handle of this clock, with its entwined dolphin tails, is also unusual. A related example in brass can be seen on a clock by Cordery (Dawson, Drover and Parkes, p. 455).
The movement has many similarities with those produced in the Knibb workshops. Common features include: the scored line border and open scrolling foliage and thistle engraving to the back plate, and the fully latched and fine ring-turned pillars. Ronald Lee (The Knibb Family: Clockmakers, Byfleet, 1964, p. 22) discusses the rapid expansion of the clock market in the late 17th Century and the problems experienced by clockmakers in meeting demand. He notes there would have been a great fluctuation in business and speculates makers may have bought in movements from their colleagues to honour their commitments when orders came in too fast. Joseph Knibb clearly supplied movements to other makers and Lee cites an example signed by Edward Stanton (p. 169, plate 188), a clock he identifies as 'undoubtedly Joseph Knibb's work'. The movement of the present clock, with its similarities to other Knibb movements (for examples see Lee, pp.128-129, plates 137-140), could have quite easily have been supplied by him.
Edward Stanton (circa 1642- post 1715) was apprenticed in December 1655 to Francis Bowen and later Nathaniel Allen. He was Free from Clockmakers' Company in January 1662/63 and soon after established his own business, taking on fourteen apprentices between 1664 and 1705. He was made Assistant to the Clockmakers' Company in 1682, Warden in 1693 and its Master in 1697. In January 1673/74 it was suggested that he had been employed by Robert Seignior to remove the name of Henry Jones from a clock once belonging to Charles II and replace it with Seignior's. The case was presented to the Court of the Clockmakers' Company but no apparent action was taken. In 1699 he oversaw John Ebsworth's will. Stanton regularly attended the Clockmakers' Company until 1715 when he most likely died.
The well-modelled handle of this clock, with its entwined dolphin tails, is also unusual. A related example in brass can be seen on a clock by Cordery (Dawson, Drover and Parkes, p. 455).
The movement has many similarities with those produced in the Knibb workshops. Common features include: the scored line border and open scrolling foliage and thistle engraving to the back plate, and the fully latched and fine ring-turned pillars. Ronald Lee (The Knibb Family: Clockmakers, Byfleet, 1964, p. 22) discusses the rapid expansion of the clock market in the late 17th Century and the problems experienced by clockmakers in meeting demand. He notes there would have been a great fluctuation in business and speculates makers may have bought in movements from their colleagues to honour their commitments when orders came in too fast. Joseph Knibb clearly supplied movements to other makers and Lee cites an example signed by Edward Stanton (p. 169, plate 188), a clock he identifies as 'undoubtedly Joseph Knibb's work'. The movement of the present clock, with its similarities to other Knibb movements (for examples see Lee, pp.128-129, plates 137-140), could have quite easily have been supplied by him.
Edward Stanton (circa 1642- post 1715) was apprenticed in December 1655 to Francis Bowen and later Nathaniel Allen. He was Free from Clockmakers' Company in January 1662/63 and soon after established his own business, taking on fourteen apprentices between 1664 and 1705. He was made Assistant to the Clockmakers' Company in 1682, Warden in 1693 and its Master in 1697. In January 1673/74 it was suggested that he had been employed by Robert Seignior to remove the name of Henry Jones from a clock once belonging to Charles II and replace it with Seignior's. The case was presented to the Court of the Clockmakers' Company but no apparent action was taken. In 1699 he oversaw John Ebsworth's will. Stanton regularly attended the Clockmakers' Company until 1715 when he most likely died.