An Important English Private Collection

A Queen Anne walnut month-going longcase clock, Daniel Quare, London, circa 1710

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Lot Closed

May 17, 11:22 AM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

An Important English Private Collection

A Queen Anne walnut month-going longcase clock, Daniel Quare, London, circa 1710

12-inch dial with Indian mask and scroll spandrels, finely matted centre with subsidiary seconds dial, date aperture, ringed winding holes and signed in an oval reserve D Quare, London, the movement with five knopped and ringed pillars, five-wheel going train with anchor escapement, rack and bell striking, the pendulum with graduated rating, the case with caddy cresting and brass ball finials above two panels of foliate fret and a moulded cornice, brass-capped hood pillars, rectangular trunk door and crossbanded plinth, the stepped base re-built

268cm; 8ft 9½in high

Daniel Quare, a celebrated maker, was born in Somerset circa 1647 and became a Free Brother in the Clockmakers' Company from 1671, Warden from 1705 and Master in 1708. He was a strict Quaker and refused to accept the prestigeous position of clockmaker to King George I on account of not wishing to take the Oath of Allegiance. He was, nevertheless, received at the Palace and allowed `freedom to enter by the back stairs'. He took a number of apprentices from 1673 including, from 1701, Stephen Horseman who later became his partner. Daniel Quare died in 1724, while on a visit to Croydon, and was buried in the Quakers' Burial Ground at Bunhill Fields, Finsbury. Stephen Horseman succeeded to the business until he was overcome by bankruptcy in 1733.