Daniel Quare, London

Circa 1685

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84 inches high

A William and Mary oyster-veneered olivewood and floral-marquetry longcase clock with alarm. CASE The case has a restored carved swan neck cresting with flowerheads joined by a swag and centred by a shell atop the rising hood with silvered ball finial above, with ebonised spiral-twist columns, glazed rectangular side windows, with paper label to upper inside printed with IDEN COLLECTION/INVENTORY NO.SS3-2024 iron spoon-and-lock, with convex throat mouldings above a trunk door with moulded ebonised frame and panels of bird and flower marquetry, ebonised moulding to the oval lenticle, with further paper label to the inside of the door inscribed IDEN COLLECTION/INVENTORY NO.2024.QUARE, the plinth also with bird and floral marquetry panel raised on bun feet. DIAL The 10 inch square gilt-brass dial has winged cherub mask and flower spandrels, signed along the lower edge Daniel Quare London, silvered chapter ring with trident half hour and dot half quarter hour markers, the finely matted centre with date aperture, central silvered alarm-setting disc and subsidiary silvered minute ring, shuttered winding holes and blued steel hands. MOVEMENT The movement has five latched and ringed pillars, anchor escapement, with inside countwheel strike and bolt-and-shutter maintaining power, weight-driven alarm train to right side of plates, with strike and alarm on single bell. Provenance: Walter Iden Collection, Inv. No. 2024, pp. 104-105 Sir Emmanuel Kaye C.B.E. Christie’s London, 29th November 2001, lot 67