Lewis Walduck
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Lot 104*,TP
A late 17th century walnut and marquetry inlaid month-going longcase clock with ten inch dial and alarm Solomon Bouquet, London
2 July 2025, 13:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £12,800 inc. premium
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A late 17th century walnut and marquetry inlaid month-going longcase clock with ten inch dial and alarm
Solomon Bouquet, London
The previously rising hood with overhanging cornice on a silk-backed soundfret and spirally twisted 3/4 columns to the front, the long door with shaped panels of bird and flower inlay on an ebonised ground, the sides with two long boxwood strung panels of figured walnut, to a matching base on bun feet and with matching side panels. The ten inch square brass dial with winged cherubs head spandrels framing the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with outer minute band, and distinctive half hour markers, the finely matted centre with narrow subsidiary seconds dial, decorated chamfered date aperture, and alarm-setting disc to the centre, signed between VII and V, S. Bouquett, London(sic). The movement with four knopped and finned pillars, five-wheel trains to an anchor escapement, the strike with centrally mounted solid countwheel mounted on the backplate striking on a bell (stand broken) the lifting piece and hammer arbor mounted on a separate cock to the frontplate, the alarm train wound via a cord emanating from the side of the hood. Together with a pendulum, one period brass weight, and a trunk door key. 1.98m (6ft 6ins) high.
The previously rising hood with overhanging cornice on a silk-backed soundfret and spirally twisted 3/4 columns to the front, the long door with shaped panels of bird and flower inlay on an ebonised ground, the sides with two long boxwood strung panels of figured walnut, to a matching base on bun feet and with matching side panels. The ten inch square brass dial with winged cherubs head spandrels framing the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with outer minute band, and distinctive half hour markers, the finely matted centre with narrow subsidiary seconds dial, decorated chamfered date aperture, and alarm-setting disc to the centre, signed between VII and V, S. Bouquett, London(sic). The movement with four knopped and finned pillars, five-wheel trains to an anchor escapement, the strike with centrally mounted solid countwheel mounted on the backplate striking on a bell (stand broken) the lifting piece and hammer arbor mounted on a separate cock to the frontplate, the alarm train wound via a cord emanating from the side of the hood. Together with a pendulum, one period brass weight, and a trunk door key. 1.98m (6ft 6ins) high.
Footnotes
Solomon Bouquet, a Huguenot clockmaker born in 1659, he became free of the Clockmakers' Company by patrimony in 1682. By 1694 he was residing in White's Alley, Grub Street, London, and in 1697 he affirmed his loyalty by signing the Clockmaker's Oath of Allegiance. He remained active in the profession until his death in 1727 at the age of 68.
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