Lot 91
A good late 17th century ebonised quarter repeating bracket timepiece David Lestourgeon
15 December 2009, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £10,800 inc. premium
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David Lestourgeon
The bell top case with decorative handle, four urn finials over moulded glazed side apertures on a moulded plinth and block feet, 6.5 inch square brass dial with winged cherub spandrels, silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with sword hilt half-hour markers and inner quarter track, gilt matted centre with ringed winding holes (dummy strike winding square), calendar aperture and signed dummy pendulum and blued steel hands to the single gut fusee movement with bird and foliate engraved backplate, verge escapement and pull quarter repeat on two bells 38cm (15in) high.
The bell top case with decorative handle, four urn finials over moulded glazed side apertures on a moulded plinth and block feet, 6.5 inch square brass dial with winged cherub spandrels, silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with sword hilt half-hour markers and inner quarter track, gilt matted centre with ringed winding holes (dummy strike winding square), calendar aperture and signed dummy pendulum and blued steel hands to the single gut fusee movement with bird and foliate engraved backplate, verge escapement and pull quarter repeat on two bells 38cm (15in) high.
Footnotes
A basket top bracket clock by David Lestourgeon with similar decoration to the backplate and dial can be seen in Clocks, Their Origin and Developement 1320-1880, H.M. Vehemeyer, item E59 Volume II.
