Thomas Tompion & Edward Banger, No.454. A Queen Anne ebony quarter repeating table clock of small size, London, circa 1707

Property of a Private American Collector

Thomas Tompion & Edward Banger, No.454. A Queen Anne ebony quarter repeating table clock of small size, London, circa 1707

5¼-inch latched dial with double-screwed mask and scroll spandrels, finely matted centre with mock pendulum aperture, signed Tho: Tompion & Edw: Banger within a foilate strap-work cartouche flanked by subsidiary regulation and strike/silent dials, the fusee movement with seven latched, knopped and ringed pillars, pivoted verge escapement with rise and fall regulation, striking the hours on a bell, pull quarter repeating on a smaller bell and the hour bell activated from either side using Tompion's system of inter-connected pivoted blued steel levers, the backplate finely engraved with foliate scrolls and signed as the dial within a cartouche below engraved martial trophies, punch numbered 454 twice to the lower edge, the case with shallow domed cresting and gilt-brass carrying handle, boldly cast gilt-brass foliate door fret, gilt-brass door escutcheon and further mounts, numbered 454 to the cill, the moulded base with block feet

13in 33cm high