A WILLIAM AND MARY EBONY AND GILT-BRASS STRIKING TABLE CLOCK WITH PULL QUARTER REPEAT JOSEPH
Details
CASE: The pierced silk-backed basket-top with loop handle, the moulded top with vase finials to the angles, front door with escutcheon and false escutcheon, glazed sides with sound frets above and glazed rear door, the plinth raised on disc feet DIAL: 61⁄2 inch dial, the silvered chapter ring with Roman hours and Arabic five minute markers, fleur-de-lis half-hour markers, pierced blued steel hands, cherub head spandrels and strike / no strike lever ‘N / S' above ‘XII' MOVEMENT: the twin train movement with plates joined by six pillars, the fusees with gut lines, verge escapement with hour strike on bell and pull repeat on a nest of four bells, the foliate engraved backplate with signature reserve ‘Joseph Windmills / London', pendulum hold-fast above elaborate set-up click springs 131⁄2 in. (34.3 cm.) high; 95⁄8 in. (24.4 cm.) wide; 65⁄8 in. (16.8 cm.) wide
Provenance
Anthony Woodburn.
Details
CASE: The pierced silk-backed basket-top with loop handle, the moulded top with vase finials to the angles, front door with escutcheon and false escutcheon, glazed sides with sound frets above and glazed rear door, the plinth raised on disc feet DIAL: 61⁄2 inch dial, the silvered chapter ring with Roman hours and Arabic five minute markers, fleur-de-lis half-hour markers, pierced blued steel hands, cherub head spandrels and strike / no strike lever ‘N / S' above ‘XII' MOVEMENT: the twin train movement with plates joined by six pillars, the fusees with gut lines, verge escapement with hour strike on bell and pull repeat on a nest of four bells, the foliate engraved backplate with signature reserve ‘Joseph Windmills / London', pendulum hold-fast above elaborate set-up click springs 131⁄2 in. (34.3 cm.) high; 95⁄8 in. (24.4 cm.) wide; 65⁄8 in. (16.8 cm.) wide
Provenance
Anthony Woodburn.
