RICHARD PECKOVER, LONDON, CIRCA 1740

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AN ENGLISH MINIATURE GILT-BRASS STRIKING TABLE CLOCK WITH PULL QUARTER REPEAT
RICHARD PECKOVER, LONDON, CIRCA 1740
The inverted bell-top with leaf-wrapped C-scroll handle, the front door with trefoil arch and pierced engraved frets to the angles, arched glazed sides and rear door with further frets, raised on pad feet, the dial with engraved mask and silvered naturalistic spandrels, the matted centre with mock pendulum aperture and disc engraved with the sun, pierced blued steel hands and signature plaque 'Peckover / London', the silvered chapter ring with Roman hours and Arabic five minutes with fleur-de-lis half hour markers and lozenge half quarter hour markers, 'Strike/Silent' dial to the arch; the movement with plates joined by ringed pillars with twin chain fusees, verge escapement with pull quarter repeat on three bells and the hour on a fourth bell, the backplate profusely engraved with entwined foliate scrolls centred by a fruiting basket and shaped signature reserve ' Rich: Peckover / London'
5 ¾ in. (14.5 cm.) high (handle down), 3 ½ in. (9 cm.) wide, 2 ¼ in. (5.7 cm.) deep

Provenance

The Wetherfield Collection (David Wetherfield d. 1928), then acquired by:
Sir John Prestige, until sold.
The S.E. Prestige Collection; Sotheby's, London, 29 April 1968, lot 51.

Literature

R. W. Symonds, Masterpieces of English Furniture and Clocks, London, 1940, Chapter VII 'English metal-cased table clocks of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries', p. 135, fig. 97.
C. Vincent, Northern European Clocks in New York Collections, New York, 1972, p. 22.
E. Bruton, The Wetherfield Collection of Clocks, London, 1981, p. 105, no. 49.

Exhibited

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Northern European Clocks in New York Collections, 4 January – 28 March 1972, inv. no. 53, inventory label 'L. 1971.93.26'.

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Lot Essay

Richard Peckover, son of a carpenter John Peckover, was apprenticed in 1700 to John Benson (probably principally an engraver). He was established at Change Alley by 1735, then Royal Exchange by 1751 until about 1754. According to a trade label in a Quare clock he took over the Quare & Horseman business in 1733.

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