The flat-top hood with moulded pediment above arched glazed door with three-quarter columns, the sides each with a glazed panel and quarter-column, the substantial trunk with plain rectangular door, above stepped moulding and plinth base; the 12 in. arched brass dial with shallow arch with four cut-out sectors showing: month with its number of days; date every seven days; equation of time to the nearest minute every seven days; sun faster or sun slower and engraved below on a tapering escutcheon ‘Tabula Equa/trio/nis’, pierced Indian mask spandrels, with signed silvered chapter ring, chevron half-hour markers, enclosing a matted centre with seconds subsidiary and calendar aperture, the twin train movement with bolt-and-shutter maintaining power, five latched, knopped and finely turned pillars, with anchor escapement and strike on a bell
225 cm high
Provenance:
The late Graham Hodgetts, sold Christie’s, London, 22 November 2009, lot 183 (£7,500 inc. premium)
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
T. Robinson, The Longcase Clock, Woodbridge, 1981, p. 172.
D. Roberts, British Longcase Clocks, Atglen, 1990, p. 104-105.
E. Bruton, The Wetherfield Collection of Clocks, London, 1981, p. 208, fig. 184.
Daniel Delander was born in 1678 and was apprenticed to Charles Halstead in 1692, later transferring to Thomas Tompion. He was Free of the Clockmakers' Company in 1699 and continued his association with Tompion as a journeyman. Following Tompion's death in 1713 he moved from Devereux Court to premises between the Two Temple Gates in Fleet Street. He died in 1733. An exceptional and ingenious maker, famed for his equation work and his duplex escapement. His use of the shallow arch, as found here, with unusual spandrels is so typical of his work.
The early use of mahogany for the case is rare and unusual.
