Lot 75
A mid 17th century brass lantern clock with alarm John Ebsworth, at ye Cross Keys, Lothbury, Londini fecit 4
16 December 2020, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £3,825 inc. premium
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A mid 17th century brass lantern clock with alarm
John Ebsworth, at ye Cross Keys, Lothbury, Londini fecit
Surmounted by a strapped bell and five urn finials between three pierced dolphin frets, over tapering columns on ball feet, the 6.25 inch wide brass Roman chapter ring with inner quarter hour track and wheatear half-hour marks, framing the florally engraved centre featuring flowers emanating from VI towards the pictogram signature, with single hand and Arabic alarm setting disc, with rope drive to a reconverted balance wheel escapement, with countwheel strike on the bell and rear-mounted alarm train. Sold with three brass weights. 39cms (15 ins) high (4)
Surmounted by a strapped bell and five urn finials between three pierced dolphin frets, over tapering columns on ball feet, the 6.25 inch wide brass Roman chapter ring with inner quarter hour track and wheatear half-hour marks, framing the florally engraved centre featuring flowers emanating from VI towards the pictogram signature, with single hand and Arabic alarm setting disc, with rope drive to a reconverted balance wheel escapement, with countwheel strike on the bell and rear-mounted alarm train. Sold with three brass weights. 39cms (15 ins) high (4)
Footnotes
John Ebsworth worked at the Cross Keys in Lothbury and also, at one time, 'in new Cheape Side' (see Loomes: "Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World", NAG Press, 1988, page 238). He was apprenticed to Richard Aymes in 1657 and made free of the Clockmakers Company in 1665. He died in 1699. It is probable that he succeeded Thomas Knifton at the Cross Keys upon Knifton's death circa 1667.
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