The 6 1/4in. square brass dial with winged cherub masks, enclosing a silvered chapter ring with matted centre and calendar aperture below the XII, blued steel pierced hands, the movement with five latched baluster-shaped pillars, verge escapement and foliate engraved backplate, signed Thomas Snelling, Londini, with outside and numbered countwheel strike on a bell, in a later Knibb style walnut case
30cm high (handle down)
Thomas Snelling (b. 1659) was apprenticed in 1672. He was Free from 1680. He paid no quarterage to the Clockmaker's Company after 1689.
See Sunny Dzik, Engraving on English Table Clocks, Art on a Canvas of Brass 1660-1800, Oxford 2019, p. 133/4 which illustrates two engraved backplates of Joseph Knibb clocks with virtually identical backplates to this lot.
Condition report
The case is in good condition. Some chipping to the upper moulded edge on corners and back. The movement ticks and strikes, it may require a service
