Lewis Walduck
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Lot 141TP
A late 17th century inlaid walnut marquetry longcase clock John Barrow, London
2 July 2025, 13:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £7,680 inc. premium
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A late 17th century inlaid walnut marquetry longcase clock
John Barrow, London
The case with flat topped hood over a blind cut frieze on spirally twisted columns, the inlaid convex throat moulding over a long door trunk door inlaid with three arched panels of birds and flowers within ebony and boxwood line borders between an oval lenticle, the sides inlaid with three panels of walnute in boxwood panels, on a matching base, and now raised on bracket feet. The 11 inch square brass dial with winged cherubs head spandrels interspersed by engraved foliage, the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with half-quarter marks and a finely engraved centre with subsidiary seconds, ringed winding squares and date aperture decorated with three crowns.
The movement with five knopped pillars, anchor escapement and inside countwheel strike to a bell. Toegether with a pair of period brass-covered weights, pendulum, trunk door key and crank winder. 208cms (82ins) high.
The case with flat topped hood over a blind cut frieze on spirally twisted columns, the inlaid convex throat moulding over a long door trunk door inlaid with three arched panels of birds and flowers within ebony and boxwood line borders between an oval lenticle, the sides inlaid with three panels of walnute in boxwood panels, on a matching base, and now raised on bracket feet. The 11 inch square brass dial with winged cherubs head spandrels interspersed by engraved foliage, the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with half-quarter marks and a finely engraved centre with subsidiary seconds, ringed winding squares and date aperture decorated with three crowns.
The movement with five knopped pillars, anchor escapement and inside countwheel strike to a bell. Toegether with a pair of period brass-covered weights, pendulum, trunk door key and crank winder. 208cms (82ins) high.
Footnotes
John Barrow (1657–c.1725) was a distinguished London clockmaker who lived through some of the city's most turbulent times, having been born just before the Great Plague (1665–1666) and surviving the Great Fire of London (1666). He was made free of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers in 1681 and went on to become Master of the Clockmakers' Company in 1714.
Provenance:
Single UK family ownership for 80 years. Sold together with a handwritten receipt to the vendors grandfather from Henderson, White Ltd., Antique Dealers, Manchester, dated Dec 15 1945 for
"6 Old Lancashire Chairs £28-0-0
"Grandfather clock in English Marquetrie (sic) walnut case £120-0-0"
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