A WILLIAM III EBONISED AND TORTOISESHELL STRIKING TABLE CLOCK WITH PULL QUARTER REPEAT HUMPHREY
Details
CASE: with silk-backed pierced basket-top, the tortoiseshell veneered case with ebonised mouldings and raised on claw-capped bun feet DIAL: the 61⁄8 inch square gilt-brass dial with skeletonised chapter ring, Roman hours and Arabic five minutes, lozenge half-hour markers, pierced blued steel hands, the matted centre with date aperture, cherub head spandrels to the angles MOVEMENT: the twin train movement with plates joined by five latched pillars, the fusees with gut lines, reinstated verge escapement, the pull quarter repeat on two bells, strike / silent lever to the backplate, engraved with foliage and flowerheads about the signature plaque 'H. Adamson / London' 121⁄4 in. (31.1 cm.) high handle down; 9 in. (22.9 cm.) wide; 6 in, .(15.2 cm.) deep
Provenance
The Wetherfield Collection. with Derek Roberts, Tonbridge, by 1998.
Literature
Eric Bruton, The Wetherfield Collection, London, 1981, p. 84, pl. 19.
Details
CASE: with silk-backed pierced basket-top, the tortoiseshell veneered case with ebonised mouldings and raised on claw-capped bun feet DIAL: the 61⁄8 inch square gilt-brass dial with skeletonised chapter ring, Roman hours and Arabic five minutes, lozenge half-hour markers, pierced blued steel hands, the matted centre with date aperture, cherub head spandrels to the angles MOVEMENT: the twin train movement with plates joined by five latched pillars, the fusees with gut lines, reinstated verge escapement, the pull quarter repeat on two bells, strike / silent lever to the backplate, engraved with foliage and flowerheads about the signature plaque 'H. Adamson / London' 121⁄4 in. (31.1 cm.) high handle down; 9 in. (22.9 cm.) wide; 6 in, .(15.2 cm.) deep
Provenance
The Wetherfield Collection. with Derek Roberts, Tonbridge, by 1998.
Literature
Eric Bruton, The Wetherfield Collection, London, 1981, p. 84, pl. 19.
