Thomas Tompion No.376. A William III small ebony quarter repeating table clock, London, circa 1700
Auction Closed
November 5, 05:54 PM GMT
Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
6-inch latched dial with double-screwed foliate spandrels, finely matted centre with mock pendulum aperture, subsidiary regulation and strike/silent dials and signed Tho Tompion Londini Fecit, the movement with six latched knopped pillars, chain fusees, pivoted verge escapement with rise and fall regulation, Tompion's quarter repeating operated from either side via interconnecting blued steel levers pivoted on the backplate, striking on a bell and repeating the quarters on a smaller bell, the backplate finely engraved with foliate scrolls, signed as the dial and numbered along the lower edge 376, the Phase 2 case with gilt carrying handle and domed top, foliate door fret and gilt escutcheons, moulded base.
Height 13½in.; Haut. 34.3cm
By repute The Lords Swaythling, Townhill Park, Southampton, sold Christie's, London, 14th July 1982, lot 222;
Private Collection, sold Christie's London, 5th July 2002, lot 93;
John Carlton Smith, London, 2012, where acquired.
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