Lewis Walduck
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Lot 114Y
A late 17th century red tortoiseshell basket top quarter repeating table clock John Adamson, London
2 July 2025, 13:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £6,400 inc. premium
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A late 17th century red tortoiseshell basket top quarter repeating table clock
John Adamson, London
Surmounted by a cast handle of dolphins and birds set on foliate pommels to a repoussé brass basket, the sides set with glazed observation windows, to a moulded base on squat claw and ball feet. The 6 inch square brass dial with cast winged cherub's head spandrels interspersed by foliate engraving, framing the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring, matted centre, strike/silent, engraved date aperture and blued steel hands. The twin fusee movement with verge escapement, the plates united by five pillars, the signed backplate engraved with tulips centred on the signature cartouche further mounted with outside barrel ratchets with stops supported by a shaped steel spring, the rack strike sounding the hours on a bell. 36cms (14 ins) high.
Surmounted by a cast handle of dolphins and birds set on foliate pommels to a repoussé brass basket, the sides set with glazed observation windows, to a moulded base on squat claw and ball feet. The 6 inch square brass dial with cast winged cherub's head spandrels interspersed by foliate engraving, framing the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring, matted centre, strike/silent, engraved date aperture and blued steel hands. The twin fusee movement with verge escapement, the plates united by five pillars, the signed backplate engraved with tulips centred on the signature cartouche further mounted with outside barrel ratchets with stops supported by a shaped steel spring, the rack strike sounding the hours on a bell. 36cms (14 ins) high.
Footnotes
John Adamson was admitted as a Brother of the Clockmakers Company in 1686. His date of death is not known, but Anna Adamson signed a watch in 1696 and may well have been his widow. John was certainly dead by 1698.
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