William Threlkeld, London

Circa 1730

£7,500

16 inches high

A good ebonised table timepiece with pull quarter repeat and pendulum regulation. CASE The case has a brass baluster handle atop an inverted bell top with glazed sides and moulded base on ebony block feet. DIAL The 6-inch brass dial is signed Wm Threlkeld London on a silvered plaque in the matted centre with calendar and mock pendulum apertures, within a silvered chapter ring with Roman and Arabic numerals and fleur de lys half hour markers, Indian mask and foliate spandrels, pendulum regulation ring in the arch. MOVEMENT The movement has five ring-turned baluster pillars, single fusee and spring barrel with gut lines, knife-edge verge escapement pull quarter repeat on two bells, pendulum regulation via a snail cam system regulating the spring-suspended pendulum with a rosette-engraved bob and wheatear-engraved securing bracket on the backplate which is profusely engraved with symmetrical foliate engraving centred by a basket of flowers all within a wheatear engraved border. WILLIAM THRELKELD William Threlkeld was born in 1674 in Brancepeth approximately 20 miles south of Newcastle upon Tyne. He was thought to have apprenticed under his uncle Deodatus Threlkeld a clockmaker of some repute in Newcastle upon Tyne. He moved to London by 1698 working near the New Exchange in the Strand, by 1728 he was working at the Sign of the King in the Minories; he is thought to have retired to Brancepeth as his death is recorded there in 1750.