Lewis Walduck
Cataloguer
Lot 91TP
A late 17th century and later, month-going walnut longcase clock with 10.25 inch dial and bolt-and-shutter maintaining power The dial signed Joseph Knibb, London, the case probably later.
2 July 2025, 13:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £7,680 inc. premium
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A late 17th century and later, month-going walnut longcase clock with 10.25 inch dial and bolt-and-shutter maintaining power
The dial signed Joseph Knibb, London, the case probably later.
The probably later walnut case with rising hood surmounted by a stepped cornice over a typical Knibb-style fret raised on spirally twisted columns, the long trunk door with D-moulded edge framing the circular lenticle over a crossbanded base. The 10.25 inch square brass dial with single engraved line border framing the fancy winged cherubs head spandrels, silvered chapter ring with outer minute band marked in Arabic five-minutes, inner quarter hour track with typical fleur de lyse half-hour markers between the finely engraved Roman numerals, finely matted centre with narrow Arabic subsidiary seconds dial, chamfered date aperture with pin-hole adjustment for the shorter months, signed in a flowing script along the lower edge Joseph Knibb, Londini fecit, with typical blued steel hands. The weight-driven movement raised on blocks on the seatboard and united by six knopped and ringed pillars latched through the frontplate, the going train terminating in an anchor escapement with butterfly suspension to the pendulum, the strike train with solid outside countwheel. 2.04m (6ft 8ins) high.
The probably later walnut case with rising hood surmounted by a stepped cornice over a typical Knibb-style fret raised on spirally twisted columns, the long trunk door with D-moulded edge framing the circular lenticle over a crossbanded base. The 10.25 inch square brass dial with single engraved line border framing the fancy winged cherubs head spandrels, silvered chapter ring with outer minute band marked in Arabic five-minutes, inner quarter hour track with typical fleur de lyse half-hour markers between the finely engraved Roman numerals, finely matted centre with narrow Arabic subsidiary seconds dial, chamfered date aperture with pin-hole adjustment for the shorter months, signed in a flowing script along the lower edge Joseph Knibb, Londini fecit, with typical blued steel hands. The weight-driven movement raised on blocks on the seatboard and united by six knopped and ringed pillars latched through the frontplate, the going train terminating in an anchor escapement with butterfly suspension to the pendulum, the strike train with solid outside countwheel. 2.04m (6ft 8ins) high.
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