A Late 17th/Early 18th Century Walnut and Marquetry Longcase...
A Late 17th/Early 18th Century Walnut and Marquetry Longcase Clock, by Brounker Watts of London, the
11ins square brass dial with silvered chapter ring with Roman and Arabic numerals, matted dial centre with subsidiary seconds dial and date aperture, cast gilt brass winged angels head spandrels interspersed with engraved leaf ornament, to the eight day two train five pillar movement with outside locking plate striking on a bell, contained in walnut and marquetry case, the hood with overhanging moulded cornice above fretted frieze and with spiral turned columns, the door face and moulded edge inlaid with trailing leaf and floral marquetry, the matched panel door with circular glass lenticule within crossbanded borders and with conforming panel plinth on bracket feet, 86ins high
Note: Brounker Watts was Apprenticed to Joseph Knibb January 1684 - February 1691, Free of The Clockmakers Company 1693 and recorded working in Fleet Street. In 1711 he avoided Stewardship of the Company as he was "Out of Town", He Died in 1719.
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A Late 17th/Early 18th Century Walnut and Marquetry Longcase Clock, by Brounker Watts of London, the
11ins square brass dial with silvered chapter ring with Roman and Arabic numerals, matted dial centre with subsidiary seconds dial and date aperture, cast gilt brass winged angels head spandrels interspersed with engraved leaf ornament, to the eight day two train five pillar movement with outside locking plate striking on a bell, contained in walnut and marquetry case, the hood with overhanging moulded cornice above fretted frieze and with spiral turned columns, the door face and moulded edge inlaid with trailing leaf and floral marquetry, the matched panel door with circular glass lenticule within crossbanded borders and with conforming panel plinth on bracket feet, 86ins high
Note: Brounker Watts was Apprenticed to Joseph Knibb January 1684 - February 1691, Free of The Clockmakers Company 1693 and recorded working in Fleet Street. In 1711 he avoided Stewardship of the Company as he was "Out of Town", He Died in 1719.
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