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Lot Essay
The skeletonised chapter ring on this clock is a particularly refined and relatively unusual feature. Such rings were time consuming -- and thus expensive -- to produce and normally associated with the eminent clockmaker Joseph Knibb. Ronald Lee (The Knibb Family: Clockmakers, Byfleet, 1964, p. 98) notes that only a few London makers ever used skeletonised chapter rings. He lists William Clement, Nathanial Barrow, Robert Dingley, Thomas Tompion, Robert Seignior, Henry Jones and Joseph Knibb. The first five used them only in isolated instances, with Jones making perhaps six examples and Knibb at least thirty. See also lot 93.
Carved crestings on longcase clocks are a quite an early feature appearing circa 1670--1690. Relatively few original crestings remain. For comparable examples see P.G. Dawson, C.B. Drover & D.W. Parkes, Early English Clocks, Woodbridge, 1982, p. 258 plates 349-351.
Edmund Appley (1656-1688) was apprenticed to Jeffrey Bayley in 1670. He was Free of the Clock Makers' Company in 1678, establishing himself in Charing Cross, London. He died whilst on a business trip to Edinburgh and was buried there 11 August 1688. Andrew Brown, clockmaker, paid for the church bells to be rung at his funeral (see also lot 96).
Carved crestings on longcase clocks are a quite an early feature appearing circa 1670--1690. Relatively few original crestings remain. For comparable examples see P.G. Dawson, C.B. Drover & D.W. Parkes, Early English Clocks, Woodbridge, 1982, p. 258 plates 349-351.
Edmund Appley (1656-1688) was apprenticed to Jeffrey Bayley in 1670. He was Free of the Clock Makers' Company in 1678, establishing himself in Charing Cross, London. He died whilst on a business trip to Edinburgh and was buried there 11 August 1688. Andrew Brown, clockmaker, paid for the church bells to be rung at his funeral (see also lot 96).