A QUEEN ANNE EBONISED BRACKET CLOCK

A QUEEN ANNE EBONISED BRACKET CLOCK

BY JOANNES MONDEHARE LONDON, LATE 17TH / EARLY 18TH CENTURY

the brass eight day movement with five turned and finned pillars and a verge escapement, the pull quarter repeat striking on three bells, the hours on a separate bell, the backplate finely engraved with scrolling foliage and with a signature panel, inscribed 'J Mondehare Londini', with a bob pendulum, the brass seven inch square dial with a silvered chapter ring, with Roman and Arabic numerals, signed 'Joannes Mondehare Londini', with a matted centre, with a false pendulum and date aperture, with scroll blued steel hands and winged angel spandrels, with an 'S/N' switch, the case with a pad top with a foliate brass handle, with fret panels, on flattened brass bun feet

38.7cm high, 26cm wide

Provenance

Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.