An important & rare William III ebony veneered & gilt-brass mounted full Grande Sonnerie table clock скачать в хорошем качестве

An important & rare William III ebony veneered & gilt-brass mounted full Grande Sonnerie table clock

Daniel Quare, London Circa 1695 An important and rare William III ebony veneered and gilt-brass mounted full Grande Sonnerie striking and trip repeating table clock Height 17¾ inches (451 mm) Case The archetypal Quare case veneered in ebony onto an oak carcass. The cushion-domed top with intricate gilt-brass mask and foliate scroll mounts to the front and sides, surmounted by a gilt double-S scroll, centrally ring-turn decorated, knopped handle, typical to Quare. The main ebony cornice moulding above the dial door with applied intricate gilt-brass sound fret to the top rail, the side rails mounted with gilt escutcheons, the case sides with matching applied intricate gilt-brass sound frets over rectangular glazed apertures. The glazed back door with D-frame edge mouldings above the main plinth moulding, all standing on four gilt-brass ringed bun feet. Dial The 8 by 9 inch (205 by 229 mm) rectangular gilt-brass, with four subsidiaries to the corners and gilt foliate-scroll repoussé mounts between, the centre revealing Quare, London to the top and bottom. The upper subsidiaries for pendulum regulation and Strike/Silent, the lower for pendulum lock and Repeat/Not Repeat. The silvered chapter ring with Roman hours and fancy sword-hilt half-hour markers, signed D. Quare, London flanking VI, the Arabic minutes every 5 with the minute division ring. The matted centre with calendar aperture above VI and mock-pendulum aperture all decorated with Quare’s familiar ring turns. The three winding holes ring-turned and the blued-steel hands well pierced and sculpted. Duration 8 days Movement The very substantial rectangular plates held by six typical Quare decoratively ringed baluster pillars pinned to the frontplate, with triple fusees and barrels; the going train with pivoted verge escapement and pendulum suspended from the rise and fall bar above and locked by twin levers below; the left (IX) side hour strike train governed by a rack and snail and striking on the large horizontal bell; the right (III) side quarter train governed by a rack and snail, with six hammers and springs bridging the plates to sound on six graduated vertical bells above. The backplate, attributed to Graver 195, with a line scored border and symmetrical, entwining, foliate scrolls with garlands of fruit, and signed Dan. Quare London in a central wheatear-bordered oval. The movement held by four blued steel brackets to the case. Escapement Pivoted verge with adjustable, suspended and remote locking pendulum Strike Type Full Grande Sonnerie striking with trip repeat Provenance H. S. Wharton Esq.; Sotheby’s, 6 October 1973, lot 265, for £6,209; Sotheby’s, 29 May 1974, lot 265, for £6,600; Private collection, until 2003, with Anthony Woodburn and sold for £200,000; The John C Taylor Collection, inventory no.120 Exhibited 2004, Palais Het Loo, Holland, Huygens’ Legacy, exhibit no.81 Literature Huygens’ Legacy, 2004, p.148-151 Quare’s Grande Sonnerie clocks are so scarce that, surprisingly, we can only find three substantiated examples recorded: this clock (the only one with remote pendulum locking); an architectural turtleshell table clock of c.1704 (private collection USA); and Lord Harris of Belmont’s longcase no.145 of c.1715, (Robinson, The Longcase Clock, p.140, col. pl. 10). By 1695, Quare was reputationly in ascendency, he had just patented his portable barometers and had surpassed Knibb as Tompion’s main rival in the top echelons of the London clock trade. In every aspect, the current example is archetypal of Quare’s best commissioned work (see p.172). It is of exceptional quality, and represents the most complicated strike facility available, combined with remote controls operating entirely through the dial, as first introduced by Tompion on his renowned series of 2-train Grande Sonnerie clocks (such as The Sussex Tompion in this collection, inventory no.27). https://www.johnctaylor.com/