| Height | 6 foot 6½ inches |
| Case | Ebony veneered on oak, rising hood with shallow dome top with three finials above a fretted frieze, the dial aperture flanked by three-quarter and quartered Doric columns, the convex throat moulding above the rectangular trunk door with three raised panels, the sides with conforming raised panels, ogee mouldings to the plain plinth on bun feet. |
| Dial | 10 inch square gilt-brass dial with three latched dial feet, finely matted centre, the silvered chapter-ring with Roman hours and trident half-hour marks, Arabic numerals within the minute ring, well sculpted blued-steel hands. Flanked by foliate cherub’s head spandrels; foliate engraved between and signed Joseph Knibb Londini Fecit along the lower edge. |
| Movement | Two-train weight-driven movement, 5¾ by 8¼ inch arched plates, secured by six latched finned baluster pillars, going-train with anchor escapement with butterfly adjustment to the backcock. Strike train governed by an outside countwheel for the Roman hours struck on two bells above. |
| Duration | 3-month. |
| Provenance | Major James Hay of Seaton House, Aberdeen and sold Christie’s, London, 19 Nov 1959 (Garrard’s £1785). Anon exors. sale, Christie’s, London, 22 June 1977, lot 55 (£28,000 hammer). Time Museum, inv. no. 1348 and sold Sotheby’s New York, 13 Oct 2004, lot 532 ($540,000) |
| Literature | Major James Hay of Seaton House, Aberdeen and sold Christie’s, London, 19 Nov 1959 (Garrard’s £1785). Anon exors. sale, Christie’s, London, 22 June 1977, lot 55 (£28,000 hammer). Time Museum, inv. no. 1348 and sold Sotheby’s New York, 13 Oct 2004, lot 532 ($540,000) |
| Escapement | Anchor. |
The Hay Knibb circa 1680
A very fine and extremely rare ebony Roman-striking three month-going longcase clock with 1¼-second pendulum
This important clock belongs to a small group of only four recorded ebony longcases by Knibb which are three-month duration, Roman striking and 1.25 second pendulum. Reference R.A. Lee, The Knibb Family Clockmakers, pls. 31 and 32, and Dawson, Drover & Parkes, Early English Clocks, pl. 373.
Seaton house was acquired by Aberdeen City Council in 1947 and demolished in 1963.
Product Description
This important clock belongs to a small group of only four recorded ebony longcases by Knibb which are three-month duration, Roman striking and 1.25 second pendulum. Reference R.A. Lee, The Knibb Family Clockmakers, pls. 31 and 32, and Dawson, Drover & Parkes, Early English Clocks, pl. 373.
Seaton house was acquired by Aberdeen City Council in 1947 and demolished in 1963.
Additional information
| Dimensions | 5827373 cm |
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