Height

11¾ inches

Case

Case of ebony on oak with a cast brass basket top decorated with cornucopia, swags of fruit, flowers and cherubs with a foliage and dolphin head handle, four small urn finials over a moulded cornice, the sides with repoussé frets and glazed below, with gilt escutcheons and sound fret to the glazed front door, on a moulded plinth with brass bun feet.

Dial

6 inch square brass dial with winged cherub head spandrels and silvered Roman and Arabic chapter-ring with half-hour marks, the matted centre with decorated date aperture below XII.

Movement

5 by 6¼ inch plates with five baluster pillars, single fusee, with verge escapement, pull repeating, sounding the hours and quarters on two bells. The line border backplate with tulips and entwined foliage signed Nathanael Hodges in Wine Office Courte in Fleet Street Londini Fecit over three lines.

Duration

8-day.

Provenance

Bonham’s 9 December 2008, lot 136 (£30,750).

Literature

Garnier & Carter, The Golden Age of English Horology, 2015, p.400-401.

Escapement

Knife-edge verge.