拍品專文
Brounker Watts (b. circa 1670) apprenticed to Joseph Knibb in 1685. He became free of the Clockmakers' Company in 1693.
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BROUNKER WATTS, LONDON, CIRCA 1715
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A GEORGE I BRASS-MOUNTED EBONISED EIGHT-DAY STRIKING TABLE CLOCK WITH PULL REPEAT
BROUNKER WATTS, LONDON, CIRCA 1715
CASE: turned handle to inverted bell top, the sides with rectangular glazed panels, twin escutcheons to front, pierced fretwork to corners, on pad feet DIAL: the brass dial engraved with birds, flowers and foliage, silvered chapter ring with Roman hours and Arabic five-minute marks, apertures for date and dummy pendulum, signed to centre Brounker Watts LONDON, subsidiary dials for 'strike/silent' and 'pull/not pull', silvered day disc to arch engraved with Deity figures and symbols emblematic of their corresponding planets, pierced blued-steel hands MOVEMENT: twin fusee movement with re-converted verge and crown wheel escapement, rack striking to bell, repeating on five bells, the back plate engraved with scrolling foliage and further signed, with pendulum; two winding keys and case key
16¾ in. (42.5 cm.) high, with handle down; 10½ in. (26.7 cm.) wide; 6¾ in. (17.2 cm.) deep
BROUNKER WATTS, LONDON, CIRCA 1715
CASE: turned handle to inverted bell top, the sides with rectangular glazed panels, twin escutcheons to front, pierced fretwork to corners, on pad feet DIAL: the brass dial engraved with birds, flowers and foliage, silvered chapter ring with Roman hours and Arabic five-minute marks, apertures for date and dummy pendulum, signed to centre Brounker Watts LONDON, subsidiary dials for 'strike/silent' and 'pull/not pull', silvered day disc to arch engraved with Deity figures and symbols emblematic of their corresponding planets, pierced blued-steel hands MOVEMENT: twin fusee movement with re-converted verge and crown wheel escapement, rack striking to bell, repeating on five bells, the back plate engraved with scrolling foliage and further signed, with pendulum; two winding keys and case key
16¾ in. (42.5 cm.) high, with handle down; 10½ in. (26.7 cm.) wide; 6¾ in. (17.2 cm.) deep
注意事項
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.
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Celia Harvey
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