Stock No. | Exhibit No.10 |
Height | 34 inches (867 mm) |
Case | The Italian Mannerist tabernacle architectural case of ebony onto an oak and pine carcass, the breakfront outset by two tapering columns with gilt-brass multi-piece Corinthian capitals, supporting a broken triangular pediment that flanks a scroll-set faceted semi-circular pediment, fronted by a gilt-brass lambrequin signed Cremstorff A Paris, and topped by a gilt-brass chimney with an urn finial. The flat un-veneered and ebonised back inset with an access door, the front with a rectangular ebony-moulded dial door above the conforming breakfront base, with a hinged-flap door inset with a wooden fret, all standing on a plain ebony-veneered rectangular step-base with four gilt-brass bun feet. The oil lamp slides in from the right side, seated behind the pierced section of the dial, and under the gilt-brass chimney. The movement winding squares located behind the lower rail of the front door (signs of plugged holes) with access eased by the hinged-flap door below. |
Dial | The 10¾ by 11 inch (274 by 280 mm) rectangular brass dial with four latched feet, the main plate painted with an Italianate garden scene of a fountain flanked by two statues on plinths, each with an E to their front for Edward East, with figures promenading an avenue of Cypress trees leading up to a hilltop Villa, all set before a mountainous landscape. The upper section painted as a clouded sky with a central arched hour-sector, the static outer with 60 small single-hole minutes, tear-drop half-quarter holes and Roman numeral pierced quarters; the revolving three-layered central hour disc with ‘flag-on-chain’ Arabic numerals, and two diametrically opposed apertures, depicting day on even hours and night on odd hours, each revealing a pierced Arabic hour number and the hour aperture position in relation to the outer arch-sector indicates the minutes past the hour. The paintwork is believed to have been restored by Asprey in the 1980s. |
Movement | The 9 by 8 inch (229 by 203 mm) irregular-octagonal movement with eight latched finned baluster pillars planted with two trains, driven by a conventional spring barrel with single fusee for the going train and a directdrive spring barrel for the strike train, both wound from the front. The gut fusee driven going train with knife-edge verge escapement and short bob pendulum; the spring barrel driven strike train governed by an hour countwheel mounted on the front of the barrel and striking the hours on a small ‘pork-pie’ bell mounted between the plates. The central hour disc front-mounted onto an arbor pivoted between the front and back plates above the escapement. The plain backplate signed to the lower centre Edward East, Londini in fine early cursive script. |
Duration | 2 days |
Provenance | Located in ‘North Africa’, and by 1983 with a Parisian antiques dealer; |
Literature | Cescinsky & Webster, English Domestic Clocks, 1976, p.128, fig.106; |
Escapement | Knife-edge verge with short bob pendulum |
Edward East, London. Circa 1665
An exceedingly rare Charles II ebony and gilt-brass architectural two-day striking night table clock
£155,000
Additional information
Dimensions | 5827373 cm |
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