A WALNUT AND MARQUETRY MONTH-GOING LONGCASE CLOCK
A WALNUT AND MARQUETRY MONTH-GOING LONGCASE CLOCK
BY SOLOMON BOUQUET, LONDON, LATE 17TH CENTURY
the brass month-going movement with four knopped and finned pillars and five-wheel trains to an anchor escapement, the strike with a centrally mounted solid countwheel mounted on the backplate striking on a bell (stand broken) the lifting piece and hammer arbor mounted on a separate cock to the frontplate, the 10 inch brass dial with a silvered chapter ring with Roman and Arabic numerals and fleur-de-lys markers, signed 'S. Bouquett, London (sic)', the matted centre with a subsidiary seconds dial and date aperture and alarm setting disc to the centre, with winged cherub mask spandrels, the flat top previously rising hood with a blind fret frieze and Solomonic columns, with fret side panels, the trunk door inlaid with panels of flowers, leaves and a bird, with a conforming plinth
198.2cm high
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Solomon Bouquet, was a Huguenot clockmaker born in 1659, he became free of the Clockmakers' Company by patrimony in 1682. By 1694 he was residing in White's Alley, Grub Street, London and in 1697 he affirmed his loyalty by signing the Clockmaker's Oath of Allegiance. He remained active in the profession until his death in 1727 at the age of 68.
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A WALNUT AND MARQUETRY MONTH-GOING LONGCASE CLOCK
BY SOLOMON BOUQUET, LONDON, LATE 17TH CENTURY
the brass month-going movement with four knopped and finned pillars and five-wheel trains to an anchor escapement, the strike with a centrally mounted solid countwheel mounted on the backplate striking on a bell (stand broken) the lifting piece and hammer arbor mounted on a separate cock to the frontplate, the 10 inch brass dial with a silvered chapter ring with Roman and Arabic numerals and fleur-de-lys markers, signed 'S. Bouquett, London (sic)', the matted centre with a subsidiary seconds dial and date aperture and alarm setting disc to the centre, with winged cherub mask spandrels, the flat top previously rising hood with a blind fret frieze and Solomonic columns, with fret side panels, the trunk door inlaid with panels of flowers, leaves and a bird, with a conforming plinth
198.2cm high
Catalogue Note
Solomon Bouquet, was a Huguenot clockmaker born in 1659, he became free of the Clockmakers' Company by patrimony in 1682. By 1694 he was residing in White's Alley, Grub Street, London and in 1697 he affirmed his loyalty by signing the Clockmaker's Oath of Allegiance. He remained active in the profession until his death in 1727 at the age of 68.
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