拍品專文
John Clowes was free of the Clockmakers Company in 1672 and made a 'warden,' or officer of the company in 1713.
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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF JEAN M. RIDDELL (LOTS 400-445)
A WILLIAM AND MARY WALNUT, EBONIZED AND FLORAL MARQUETRY LONGCASE CLOCK
SIGNED JOHN CLOWES LONDINI FECIT, CIRCA 1695, MOVEMENT PROBABLY ASSOCIATED
細節
A WILLIAM AND MARY WALNUT, EBONIZED AND FLORAL MARQUETRY LONGCASE CLOCK
SIGNED JOHN CLOWES LONDINI FECIT, CIRCA 1695, MOVEMENT PROBABLY ASSOCIATED
CASE: the reconverted rising hood with foliate fret above a glazed door with spiral-turned columns, the case door with panels of engraved marquetry and green glass lenticle on similarly inlaid plinth, bun feet DIAL: the 12 inch dial with matted center, cherub spandrels to silvered chapter ring, subsidiary seconds ring and date aperture, signed along the lower edge John Clowes London MOVEMENT: five pillars, with outside countwheel strike on bell and bolt-and-shutter maintaining power the backboard with partial printed paper depository label ...OPE & SONS HAMMERSMITH/M...ARKE WOOD and chalk AM 39, the hood rebuilt; two weights, pendulum
77¾ in. (197.5 cm) high
SIGNED JOHN CLOWES LONDINI FECIT, CIRCA 1695, MOVEMENT PROBABLY ASSOCIATED
CASE: the reconverted rising hood with foliate fret above a glazed door with spiral-turned columns, the case door with panels of engraved marquetry and green glass lenticle on similarly inlaid plinth, bun feet DIAL: the 12 inch dial with matted center, cherub spandrels to silvered chapter ring, subsidiary seconds ring and date aperture, signed along the lower edge John Clowes London MOVEMENT: five pillars, with outside countwheel strike on bell and bolt-and-shutter maintaining power the backboard with partial printed paper depository label ...OPE & SONS HAMMERSMITH/M...ARKE WOOD and chalk AM 39, the hood rebuilt; two weights, pendulum
77¾ in. (197.5 cm) high
來源
Acquired from Malcolm Franklin, Chicago.
展覽
Park Lane Antiques Fair, London, 1984