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Circa 1708
Sold
16 3â„4 inches high
A very fine and rare ebony striking table clock. The ebony-veneered case is of Phase III type with a fine quality foliate tied and acanthus leaf gilt- brass handle surmounting the inverted bell top, the front door is applied with a gilt-brass foliate sound fret to the top rail and gilt-brass cartouche escutcheons applied to the side rails, the lower rail is applied with a further foliate mount, the inner dial mask with pierced ebony sound fret, the inside door-sill is clearly punch-numbered 465, glazed rectangular side panels, the moulded plinth raised on later gadrooned gilt-brass feet. The 6 3â„4 inch gilt-brass latched dial is signed on a gilt-brass plaque Tho. Tompion London embellished with a floral garland and within a wheatear border – the plaque covering the ‘first'' signature Tho. Tompion Edw Banger London, flanked by silvered subsidiary dials for strike/silent and pendulum regulation, the lower spandrels with double-screwed female mask-and-foliate spandrels beneath the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with sword hilt half hour and half quarter hour markers, well sculpted blued steel hour and minute hands, the very finely matted gilt centre has a mock pendulum aperture with rosette-engraved ‘bob'' The movement with substantial brass rectangular plates joined by seven ring-turned and latched pillars, twin chain fusees, pivoted verge escapement with the original brass rod pendulum suspended from the arched regulation bar above the backplate, hour rack strike and restored pull quarter repeat on Tompion''s elaborate system via two double-cocked interconnecting blued steel levers, the back plate is elaborately engraved with scrolling foliage and is signed Tho. Tompion & Edw Banger LONDON within an elaborately engraved cartouche and punch-numbered 465 at the base on the scored line border.