A GEORGE I BRASS-MOUNTED EBONISED QUARTER REPEATING AND STRIKING TABLE CLOCK

The case with an inverted bell top pediment, with knopped handle and four elongated turned finials, above a moulded edge, the hinged door with arched glazed panel, pierced spandrels, the sides each with two pierced panels, on stepped plinth and bracket feet; the 7in arched brass dial, with Strike / Silent in the arch, with unusual mask and lambrequin pierced spandrels,  silvered chapter ring signed Windmill, London, with arabic five minutes to the outer edge and fleur-de-lys half-hour markers, enclosing a matted centre with false pendulum aperture, pierced blued steel hands and calendar aperture, the twin train chain fusée movement, with foliate engraved backplate, signed Windmills, London in an oval, verge escapement, quarter repeating on a carillon of six bells and striking the hour on a larger single bell 

51cm high

PROVENANCE: Chiswick Auctions, London, 21 March 2017, lot 434.

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
James A. Neale, Joseph and Thomas Windmills Clock and Watch Makers 1671-1737, Wadhurst, 1999.

Baillie states Joseph Windmills 'a very fine maker of clocks and watches'.  He was granted his Freedom in 1671 and is recorded as working in Tower Street. 

The clock is in very good condition.  It functions and the repeat works. The movement appears clean and well cared for.  The bell staff for the quarter bells has been changed and repositioned. There is a hairline scratch on the chapter ring just by the I o’clock.  The brass mouldings to the doors and sides are an attractive deep straw colour with some tarnishing.