拍品 95
95
A GEORGE I LARGE EBONISED, PAINTED AND BRASS-MOUNTED QUARTER-CHIMING EIGHT DAY TABLE CLOCK
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A GEORGE I LARGE EBONISED, PAINTED AND BRASS-MOUNTED QUARTER-CHIMING EIGHT DAY TABLE CLOCK

DANIEL QUARE AND STEPHEN HORSEMAN, NO. 186. CIRCA 1725

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A GEORGE I LARGE EBONISED, PAINTED AND BRASS-MOUNTED QUARTER-CHIMING EIGHT DAY TABLE CLOCK
DANIEL QUARE AND STEPHEN HORSEMAN, NO. 186. CIRCA 1725
CASE: stepped top surmounted by brass finials and with two tiers of pierced and engraved sound frets to front and sides, brass-capped columns to each angle, brass-framed front and rear doors, sides with brass handles above brass-framed glazed (formerly fretted) side panels, above stepped brass-bound plinth and on brass feet; the green paint later DIAL: 7½ in. brass dial with gilt mask and foliate spandrels to silvered chapter ring, gilt matted centre with engraving to the date square and signed above the mock pendulum aperture 'Dan Quare/S Horseman/LONDON', blued steel hands (later minute), the arch with replaced regulation ring and flanked by strike/silent and replaced chime/silent ring MOVEMENT: the substantial six pillars movement with thick pillars, triple fusees, now converted to anchor escapement, with hour strike on bell and quarter chimes on eight bells (formerly musical), the back plate well engraved with foliate scrolls and figures beside a fountain, signed on a cartouche 'Dan Quare/Ste: Horseman/London 186', secured to the case with engraved brass brackets; pendulum, crank key
26½ in. (67 cm.) high; 15 1/8 in. (38.5 cm.) wide; 10¾ in. (27.5 cm.) deep

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A Quare & Horseman musical table clock, No. 185, of almost identical design is illustrated in P.G. Dawson, The Iden Clock Collection, Woodbridge, 1987, pp. 132-133, also in H. Cescinsky, The Old English Master Clockmakers and their Clocks, London, 1938, p. 134.
Daniel Quare (b.1649-1724) was one of the most illustrious clockmakers of England's golden age of horology. He was first admitted as a Brother of the Company 3 April 1671 and became its Master in 1708.
George I offered Quare the post of King's Watchmaker; however, being a Quaker he was unable to swear the necessary Oath of Allegiance. Even so, the King allowed him free access to the Palace at any time. In 1718 Quare took his former apprentice, Stephen Horseman, into partnership and towards the end of his life he retired to Croydon.
Horseman continued Quare's numbering system and continued to sign his work 'Quare and Horseman' even after the former's death in 1724. He proved not to be as good a businessman, however, and was declared bankrupt in 1730. See also lot 95.