Lot 44TP
A good, small walnut marquetry inlaid longcase clock with 10.25-inch dial and bolt-and-shutter maintaining power Charles Gretton, London
13 July 2023, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £10,240 inc. premium
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A good, small walnut marquetry inlaid longcase clock with 10.25-inch dial and bolt-and-shutter maintaining power
Charles Gretton, London
The square topped hood (originally rising) with overhanging cornice and Knibb-style blind-cut fret supported on spiral columns, the long door inlaid with four shaped panels of bird-and-flower marquetry on an ebonised ground, set with an oval lenticle and resting on an inlaid panelled base with bun feet, the sides of the trunk and base both set with walnut oysters within cross banded borders. The 10.25 inch square brass dial signed at the base within a single line border framing the fancy winged cherubs head spandrels and silvered chapter ring with narrow five-minute band set with half-quarter marks around the large Roman chapters and half-hour markers, the finely matted centre with small subsidiary seconds dial, blued steel hands and chamfered date aperture. The movement united by five knopped and finned pillars, with anchor escapement and outside countwheel strike on a bell. Together with a brass-faced pendulum, trunk door key and two brass clad weights.
1.9m (6ft 3ins) high.
The square topped hood (originally rising) with overhanging cornice and Knibb-style blind-cut fret supported on spiral columns, the long door inlaid with four shaped panels of bird-and-flower marquetry on an ebonised ground, set with an oval lenticle and resting on an inlaid panelled base with bun feet, the sides of the trunk and base both set with walnut oysters within cross banded borders. The 10.25 inch square brass dial signed at the base within a single line border framing the fancy winged cherubs head spandrels and silvered chapter ring with narrow five-minute band set with half-quarter marks around the large Roman chapters and half-hour markers, the finely matted centre with small subsidiary seconds dial, blued steel hands and chamfered date aperture. The movement united by five knopped and finned pillars, with anchor escapement and outside countwheel strike on a bell. Together with a brass-faced pendulum, trunk door key and two brass clad weights.
1.9m (6ft 3ins) high.
Footnotes
See: Radage, D. et al (2016) Charles Gretton, Clock & Watchmaking through the Golden Age. Vancouver: Three O'clock Publishing, p.80 and Fig.2.43, featured as LC15.
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