John Davis, Windsor
The 17 inch painted dial with moulded edge framing the Arabic minute track and Roman numerals, with heart-shaped hands (the minute counter balanced), over a shaped section boldly signed 'John Davis. Windsor' within painted gilt scrolls, the short trunk door applied with a coloured print of two gentlemen dining at a table, the lower section with unusual ogee moulded door, hinged to the right and locking to the left, the weight driven movement wound through a shuttered aperture in the dial and with five knopped pillars, five-wheel train terminating in an anchor escapement powered by a barrel of seven turns. 88cms (2ft 11ins) high.

Footnotes

John Davis is recorded as working circa 1749-1784.

Provenance:
Single family ownership for the last 30 years. Purchased from Strike One, Islington, London, February 1991.

Literature:
This clock is recorded as "A very rare miniature white round dial." in Gatto, M. (2010) The Tavern Clocks. Bath: Tavernicus Publishing, p119. It is the only Davis wall clock recorded and the only miniature example with a print on the door. It is also featured in 'Millers Clocks' 2000, and Clocks Magazine January 1984.

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