GEORGE GRAHAM, LONDON, NO.619: A GOOD GEORGE I EBONY STRIKING BRACKET CLOCK WITH ALARM

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GEORGE GRAHAM, LONDON, NO.619: A GOOD GEORGE I EBONY STRIKING BRACKET CLOCK WITH ALARM
circa 1725
The case on block feet with giltmetal foliate escutcheons to the door with pierced wood soundfret, glazed sides, the inverted bell top with typical foliate carrying handle, the dial signed Geo: Graham London above XII and flanked by subsidiary rings for strike/silent and regulation, silvered chapter ring with lozenge half-hour marks, the matted centre with mock pendulum and calendar aperture with pinhole adjustment, silvered alarm disc to the centre, pierced blued hands, silver double screwed mask-and-foliate spandrels, latches to the dial feet and six pillar movement with verge escapement and spring suspended pendulum, hour striking and with pull quarter repeat on Tompion's system from either side via two interconnecting double-cocked right angled blued steel levers, the alarmwork mounted on an extension to the right of the plates, the backplate with acanthus engraved border framing scrolling foliage inhabited with eagles' heads with a flowering urn and with similarly engraved signature, punch numbered 619 to base, the movement secured with screws through base pillars and with foliate engraved brackets to case
14in.(35.5cm.) high

Provenance

Sold at Sotheby & Co., 2 February 1970, lot 204
Bought from R A Lee, 17 March 1970 (13000

Literature

Country Life, 12 March 1970, pp.622-23, fig.1

Lot Essay

Though Graham made many watches he made comparatively few clocks, perhaps a hundred in number. The alarm work of this clock is very unusual in being mounted on the side of the plates. It was presumably added at the request of the purchaser and before the backplate was engraved up since the wheatear border allows for the slight inset of the plate.

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