Height

16½  inches

Case

The elegant inverted bell top ebony case surmounted by a gilt knopped handle with laid-on gilt-metal mouldings to all the front and back door apertures. The sides with matching breakarch apertures and gilt mouldings, with well defined top and base mouldings, standing on four gilt brass moulded block feet.

Dial

6¼ by 9¼ inch breakarch dial with date ring above, flanked by pendulum regulation and strike/silent subsidiaries. The Roman and Arabic chapter ring with fleur-de-lys half-hour and diamond half-quarter markers, flanked by cherub’s head spandrels and matted centre with mock pendulum below XII and signed on a reserve 176, Dan. Quare, Ste. Horseman, London.

Movement

Six baluster pillars, gut fusees, verge escapement with regulation over the plates. Rack and snail striking with pull-quarter repeat cocked via a steel lever to the backplate. Fixed with two brackets and two screws into the base pillars. The backplate engraved with a wheatear border, birds, foliage and masks, signed within an oval 176, Dan: Quare, Ste: Horseman, London.

Duration

8 days

Provenance

Private collection U.K.

Comparative Literature

Cedric Jagger, Royal Clocks, 1983.