Height | 12¾ inches |
Case | The ebony veneered case with cushion moulded top over gilt-brass pierced and engraved gallery frets flanked by four finials and surmounted by a gilt-brass knopped handle on a brass base. The front door with laid-on moulding framing the dial aperture. The glazed sides with matching mouldings below inset d-ended engraved sound frets. The base moulding over turned gilt brass bun feet. |
Dial | 5½ inch square brass dial, superbly engraved to the border and corners with foliage and hawks heads and inset with a date aperture below VI. The corners with four subsidiary dials, the upper two for strike/silent and pendulum regulation, the lower indicating days and months. The silvered chapter ring with sword-hilt half-hour markers and cross half-quarters, signed Claudius Du Chesne Londini around VI. The matted centre with three winding holes and mock pendulum aperture. |
Movement | The diminutive movement with triple fusees, the central going train with verge escapement, regulation bar and engraved snail, the quarters striking on three bells, the hours rack striking on a further bell. The backplate with delicate scrolling foliage and strapwork centred by an oval vignette engraved with figures of Apollo pursuing Daphne within a wheat ear border and further grotesque masks below supported by two winged caryatids. |
Duration | 8 days |
Provenance | Christies, 5 July 2006, Important Clocks and Marine Chronometers, Lot 148, £93,600. |
Claudius Duchesne, London Circa 1705
An exceptionally fine and small Queen Anne ebony veneered quarter-striking table clock
£125,000
Additional information
Dimensions | 5827373 cm |
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