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Spring Table Clock


Spring Table Clock ( 1695 )

Artists:   ROBERT HODGKIN (worked from 1695)
Medium:   brass ebony veneer
Dimensions:   37.00cm high (  14.57 inches high)
Description:   A good, William & Mary, ebony veneered, quarter repeating spring table
clock. The ebony case standing on block feet with a single, well-patinated
brass carrying handle to the caddy top.

The 7ins x 8ins elongated brass dial is mounted with a silvered chapter ring
and winged cherub spandrels. The upper corner spandrels have peripheral
foliage engraving flanking the maker’s signature. The matted centre has an
aperture to view a false pendulum, a second aperture to view the day of the
month and ringed winding holes.

The twin fusee, eight day duration movement has a verge escapement and
quarter repeating mechanism sounded on three bells with the hours on a
separate bell. The backplate, decorated with birds and flowers, has
peripheral wheat ear engraving and is signed by the maker, Robert Hodgkin,
London.

 


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