Lot 48TP
A burr walnut and oyster veneered longcase clock with 10.25 inch dial and bolt-and-shutter maintaining power Joseph Windmills, London
29 November 2023, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £5,760 inc. premium
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A burr walnut and oyster veneered longcase clock with 10.25 inch dial and bolt-and-shutter maintaining power
Joseph Windmills, London
The case with rising hood set with spirally twisted columns, convex throat moulding over a long door with D-moulded edge framing the geometric pattern centred by a bullseye lenticle, on a matching base. The 10 1/8ths of an inch square brass dial with winged cherub's head spandrels framing the narrow silvered brass chapter ring with Arabic five minutes within the minute band framing the slender Roman hours and half quarter-hour track, with fleur-de-lys half-hour markers, the finely matted centre with large subsidiary seconds dial, date aperture and matted shutters for the maintaining power, signed along the lower edge Joseph Windmills, Londini. The movement with thin plates united by five latched, knopped and ringed pillars, anchor escapement and inside countwheel striking on a bell, the backplate cut for the anchor. Together with a pendulum (bob detached but present) and two brass weights. Movement and dial late 17th century, case possibly later.
1.86m (6ft 1.25ins) high.
The case with rising hood set with spirally twisted columns, convex throat moulding over a long door with D-moulded edge framing the geometric pattern centred by a bullseye lenticle, on a matching base. The 10 1/8ths of an inch square brass dial with winged cherub's head spandrels framing the narrow silvered brass chapter ring with Arabic five minutes within the minute band framing the slender Roman hours and half quarter-hour track, with fleur-de-lys half-hour markers, the finely matted centre with large subsidiary seconds dial, date aperture and matted shutters for the maintaining power, signed along the lower edge Joseph Windmills, Londini. The movement with thin plates united by five latched, knopped and ringed pillars, anchor escapement and inside countwheel striking on a bell, the backplate cut for the anchor. Together with a pendulum (bob detached but present) and two brass weights. Movement and dial late 17th century, case possibly later.
1.86m (6ft 1.25ins) high.
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