Lot 1270

A GEORGE I EBONISED SMALL STRIKING TABLE CLOCK

By Daniel Delander, London, circa 1720

Estimate: £5,000 - £8,000
Hammer price: £8,500
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.

With an inverted bell-top case, surmounted by a knopped brass handle, above a door with arched glazed panel, the 5in arched brass dial, finely detailed, with calendar subsidiary above finely cast spandrels, enclosing a silvered chapter ring, enclosing a matted centre with false pendulum aperture, oval signature escutcheon and blued steel pierced hands, the twin train gut fusée movement with verge escapement, with engraved and signed backplate, (formerly with pull quarter repeat) striking the hours on a bell 

35cm high (handle up)


Daniel Delander was apprenticed to Thomas Thompion in 1692.  Delander is recorded as working firstly in Essex Street, then Devereux Court, from where in 1714 he moved to a house between the two gates of Inner Temple.  He died in 1733.  A fine maker.

The clock is in good condition.  The case ebonising has been refreshed in the past.  The quarter repeating work is now lost.  The movement is running. The verge escapement is a reinstatement.  The base has a cut out for the previous longer pendulum when likely footed with an anchor escapement. 

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