Stock No. | Exhibit No. 27 |
Height | 14¼ inches (362 mm) |
Case | The oak carcass veneered in ebony, the cushion-domed top with foliate scroll mounts to all four sides centred by addorsed animal heads and surmounted by a gilt-metal knopped handle with Quare’s distinctive ringturned decoration and matching turned pommels. The full-height dial door with a pierced sound fret to the top rail, and gilt-metal Tompion-pattern foliate-drop escutcheons with a later ‘winged’ mount on the bottom rail. The case sides with pierced sound frets over rectangular panels, the whole standing on gilt-metal turned bun feet. |
Dial | The 6½ by 7¼ inch (165 by 184 mm) rectangular gilt-brass dial signed Dan. Quare, London within the foliate-scroll engraved band below the strike/ silent lever and above the silvered chapter ring having triple sword-hilt half hour marks, pierced blued-steel hands, the matted centre with calendar aperture above VI and mock-pendulum aperture below XII. The winding apertures with Quare’s familiar workshop ring turns. |
Movement | The substantial twin chain fusee movement with six typical Quare ring turned baluster pillars, the going train with knife-edge verge escapement, the strike train governed by a rack and snail and hour-striking on the large bell above, with Quare’s own pull-quarter repeating mechanism sounding on four smaller bells with a cocking lever mounted on the backplate, the backplate itself engraved with a line border and symmetrical, entwining, foliate scrolls and signed Daniel Quare LONDON in a central wheatear bordered oval. Rack hour striking with Quare’s own pull-quarter repeat |
Duration | 8 days |
Provenance | Partridge, New Bond Street, sold 1991 for £29,500; |
Comparative Literature | Garnier & Carter, The Golden Age of English Horology, 2015, Quare chapter p.261-312 |
Literature | Dawson, Drover & Parkes, Early English Clocks, 1982, movement illus. and |
Escapement | Knife-edge verge with short bob pendulum |
Daniel Quare, London. Circa 1695
A good William III ebony veneered striking verge table clock with pull quarter repeat
Sold
Additional information
Dimensions | 5827373 cm |
---|