LATE 18TH CENTURY

细节

An English brass lantern clock
Late 18th Century
With 3cm. (1in.) wide chapter ring, thistle and leaf engraved centre (formerly with alarm-setting disc), original single hand, frets original, side doors probably original but with later 'glazed wings' for centre swinging pendulum, thirty-hour divided movement with verge escapement, the iron back plate later and formerly with alarmwork, strike on original bell above; with later wall bracket
39.5 cm. high

注意事项

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拍品专文

For a discussion of 'wings' and centre swinging pendulums on English lantern clocks see George White, English Lantern Clocks, Antique Collectors' Club, 1989, pp.200-203. From the start of the Third Period of English lantern clockmaking (1660-1700) clocks with divided trains and centre swinging pendulums (as on the present example) are known. However, no written evidence of 'wings' occurs until 1913 and it seems probable that the pendulums were in fact intended to swing through rough slots in the side doors (cf. the present clock). According to White (op.cit, p.201) almost every clock with centre swinging pendulum also had alarm work.