A WALNUT AND MARQUETRY LONGCASE CLOCK

A WALNUT AND MARQUETRY LONGCASE CLOCK

BY JOHN BARROW, LONDON, LATE 17TH CENTURY

the brass eight day movement with five knopped pillars, anchor escapement and internal countwheel striking on a bell, the 11 inch brass dial with a silvered chapter ring with Roman and Arabic numerals and fleur-de-lys markers, signed 'J-hn Barrow, London fecit', the matted centre with engraved decoration and a subsidiary seconds dial and date aperture, with winged cherub spandrels, the flat top hood above a blind fret panel and Solomonic columns, the trunk door with panels of floral marquetry with birds and with a lenticle, with a conforming plinth

208.8cm high

Provenance

Catalogue Note

John Barrow (1657–c.1725) was a distinguished London clockmaker who lived through some of the city's most turbulent times, having been born just before the Great Plague (1665–1666) and surviving the Great Fire of London (1666). He was made free of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers in 1681 and went on to become Master of the Clockmakers' Company in 1714.

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