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A good mid 18th century ebonized table clock with pull quarter repeat by John Pepys
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John Pepys, London, a good mid 18th century table clock with pull quarter repeat, the ebonized case with molded, brass trimmed base on cast brass bracket feet, canted corners with caryatid mounts above bowknot – suspended floral garlands flanking glazed doors with break arch apertures, case sides with fabric backed pierced brass frets, and caddy top with decorative cast mount and folding handle, 7 inch composite dial with silvered roman numeral chapter ring, matted center with apertures for mock pendulum and date, and silvered plate engraved "J. Pepys London", cast, gilt spandrels, strike/ silent selector in the arch, and well finished blued steel hands, 8 day, three train movement with acanthus engraved back plate, verge escapement with bob pendulum, and pull quarter repeating on six bells
A good early 18th century English table clock with pull quarter repeat by John Purdom
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John Purdom, London, a good early 18th century table clock with pull quarter repeat, the ebonized case with molded, brass trimmed base and cushion feet, the front and rear doors with brass aperture molding and paired escutcheons, molded cornice and brass trimmed caddy top with finely pierced and engraved brass fret, and turned, gilt wood finials, the sides with knopped handles and engraved brass frets matching the top, brass composite dial with roman numeral silvered chapter ring and blued steel hands, the matted center with date aperture and mock pendulum below 12:00, Dutch style day of the week aperture above 6:00, and subsidiary strike/ silent and rise and fall regulation dials flanking a lunar date chapter with penny moon, eight day three train fusee movement, now with recoil escapement, the back plate engraved with wheatear border enframing scrolling acanthus, birds, and canephore, counting the hours on a bell, and with pull quarter repeating on six bells, with brass clad pendulum
A later 18th century ebonized quarter striking bracket clock signed Michael Remred London
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Probably Michael Dermer, Ochsenhausen, Germany, a later 18th century ebonized three train bracket clock, the case with molded top and base, the door with glazed, break arch aperture, and upper corners with gilt spandrels, sides also with glazed break arch openings, and flattened, molded bell top with cast brass carrying handle, gilt and engraved composite dial with silvered, roman numeral chapter ring, blued steel hands, and mock pendulum below 12:00, the arch with signed boss and subsidiary dials for strike control, brass, two day, three train movement with verge escapement and bob pendulum, striking petit sonnerie Viennese quarters on two bells, with grand sonnerie repeating on demand
A late 18th century EBONIZED STRIKING TABLE CLOCK WITH
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A late 18th century EBONIZED STRIKING TABLE CLOCK WITH PULL QUARTER REPEAT
Signed William Hughes, Holborn, London
The case surmounted by a caddy top with brass carrying handle flanked by bud finials, glazed side panels with gilt fillets, on a moulded base. The brass dial with gilt scroll spandrels, silvered strike/silent dial in the arch, silvered Roman chapter ring enclosing date, mock pendulum and silvered signature plaque in the matted centre, with scroll hands. The movement with rectangular plates, engraved with foliate scrolls enclosing signature cartouche, five knopped pillars, twin fusees with wire lines, verge escapement with knife edge suspended bob pendulum, striking the hour on a bell mounted above the case with pull quarter repeat on six bells.
Size: 17 ½ in (44cm) high including handle.
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William Hughes worked at 119 High Holborn from 1755-1792. In 1763 he took Thomas Earnshaw as an apprentice, who eventually took over his premises when Hughes died.
Illustrated in Dzik, Sunny. Engraving on English Table Clocks, 1660-1800 fig. H21-2
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A rare early 18th century ebony table clock
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A rare early 18th century ebony table clock
Charles Goode, London
Surmounted by a bold 'Quare-style' double-S scroll handle on a caddy top over an intricately moulded cornice and two long glazed side panels to a moulded base and block feet, the front door with highly unusual ogee bolection-moulded frame. The rectangular dial measuring 7.75 ins x 7ins signed upper centre Charles Goode, LONDON over a strike/not strike lever framed by foliate and strapwork spandrels to the corners, the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with half-quarter marks and meeting-arrowhead half hour markers, the finely matted centre displaying the decorated mock pendulum aperture, conforming date aperture and ringed winding squares, with finely pierced original hands. The twin gut fusee movement (now wire) now converted to anchor escapement with internal rack strike on the bell, the plates united by five knopped and ringed pillars (the centre latched), the backplate boldly engraved with interlaced foliate scrolls centred by the repeat signature within a shaped foliate cartouche below a winged cherubs head. 43cms (17ins) high
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Another table clock by Goode with an ogee bolection-moulded door was sold Christies London, 'Magnificent Clocks', 15/9/2004, lot 21, with a quarter chiming movement, the hammer price was £30,000.
Charles Goode was a watchmaker who was made a Free Brother in the Clockmaker's Company in September 1686. He did not sign the 1697 oath roll of allegiance for any City Company. He died in 1730.
compare with others in DDP – the christies one was plates 580-583..
A late 19th century French ebonized quarter striking portable table clock signed Breguet
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France, a late 19th century ebonized quarter striking portable table clock, the rectilinear, ebonized case on toupie feet and with gilt floral and foliate mounts, top with aperture for viewing the escapement, and with folding carrying handle, roman numeral silvered dial with blued steel Breguet style hands and engraved, gilt center with Breguet et Fils signature, 8 day time and strike movement with lever platform, sounding the quarters on two bells, and striking the hour on a single bell
Christopher Pinchbeck Senior, Ebonized Quarter Repeating Table Clock with Automata
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Christopher Pinchbeck Senior, Ebonized Quarter Repeating Table Clock with Automata, English, circa 1780
6-inch silvered chapter ring, signed Chris Pinchbeck Senior, London, calendar aperture, automaton scene of a workshop, bellows, bell striking fusee movement, verge escapement, with pull repeater, engraved backplate.
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Ht. 21 1/2 in. W 11 1/2 in. D 7 1/4 in.
Provenance: Time Museum Inventory No. 3795. Sotheby's Sale: Masterpieces from the Time Museum, 1999.
The collection of Dr. William Thomas, Naples, Florida.