CLAUDE DUCHESNE, LONDON, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE I ORMOLU-MOUNTED EBONY QUARTER-REPEATING TABLE CLOCK
CLAUDE DUCHESNE, LONDON, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
The dial with mock pendulum aperture, day of the week sector and strike/not strike lever, the engraved mask with calendar aperture and applied with a figure of Father Time, signed below 'Claudius DuChesne Londini', two train gut fusee movement with verge escapement, rack striking to bell with pull quarter repeat on six bells, engraved backplate
23. ½ in. (60 cm.) high; 12 ½ in. (31.9 cm.) wide; 10 in. (25.4 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

Claude Du Chesne or Duchesne, a Huguenot who fled Paris, is recorded working in London on Dean Street - St. Ann Soho from circa 1690. He was Free of the Clockmakers' Company in 1693 and died circa 1730.

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