A GEORGE I WALNUT-VENEERED STRIKING MONTH-GOING LONGCASE CLOCK WITH EQUATION OF TIME

DANIEL DELANDER, LONDON, CIRCA 1720

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A GEORGE I WALNUT-VENEERED STRIKING MONTH-GOING LONGCASE CLOCK WITH EQUATION OF TIME
DANIEL DELANDER, LONDON, CIRCA 1720
CASE: with brass finials to stepped and double-fretted caddy top, glazed side panels and inset brass-capped pilasters, rectangular trunk door, on double-footed plinth, restorations DIAL: 13 inch wide brass dial with bird and urn spandrels to silvered chapter ring with diamond half hour markers signed 'DAN. DELANDER LONDON', matted centre with subsidiary seconds ring and date aperture, blued steel hands (replaced minute), silvered ring to the shallow arch showing year calendar, equation of time and sun slow/fast, inscribed below 'THE/EQUATION OF/NATURAL DAYS', restorations MOVEMENT: with five latched pillars, anchor escapement, interior rack strike to bell, bolt-and-shutter maintaining power, replaced seatboard, restorations; two brass weights, replaced (non-seconds beating) pendulum, crank key, case key
109 in. (277 cm.) high; 21¼ in. (54 cm.) wide; 9 in. (23 cm.) deep

Literature

D. Roberts, British Longcase Clocks, Pennsylvania, 1990, pp. 104-105.

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Lot Essay

As Roberts (op. cit.) writes, Delander was a particularly fine and ingenious maker, famed for his equation work and duplex escapement. A Delander dial of related design is illustrated in T. Robinson, The Longcase Clock, Woodbridge, 1981, p. 172, fig.. A superlative gilt-brass and ivory-mounted ebonised astronomical longcase clock with equation of time and duplex escapement was sold Christie's, London, 11 December 2002, lot 80 (£204,650). More recently, a walnut month going longcase by him was sold, Christie's, London, the property of an estate, 9 June 2011, lot 244 (£43,250).

Daniel Delander (1678-1733) apprenticed to Charles Halstead in 1692, later transferring to Thomas Tompion. He was Freed in July 1699 but continued his association with Tompion's workshop, quite possibly as a journeyman. When Tompion died in 1713 Delander moved from Devereux Court to premises between the Two Temple Gates in Fleet Street.

For a Daniel Delander table clock see lot 128.

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