A QUEEN ANNE BRASS-MOUNTED EBONISED EIGHT DAY STRIKING TABLE CLOCK

JAMES MARKWICK, LONDON. CIRCA 1705

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A QUEEN ANNE BRASS-MOUNTED EBONISED EIGHT DAY STRIKING TABLE CLOCK
JAMES MARKWICK, LONDON. CIRCA 1705
CASE: now with ebonised moulding and replaced handle above pierced basket top, later finials, with brass mounts to all front door rails, glazed side panels, on later feet DIAL: 7 in. square brass dial with winged cherub spandrels to chapter ring with quarter and half quarter hour markers, signed 'Markwick London', matted centre with engraving around the mock pendulum and date apertures, ringed winding holes, steel hands (replaced minute), strike/not strike (lacking) above XII MOVEMENT: five ringed pillars, secured to the case with turn catches behind the dial and with a bolt (lacking) through the lower pillar, twin fusees with verge escapement, hour strike on bell, now lacking pull quarter repeat, the back plate elaborately engraved with birds and foliage around an angel; winding key
16¼ in. (41 cm.) high, handle down; 10¼ in. (26 cm.) wide; 6¾ in. (17 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

A double basket top table clock of related design signed Markwick, London, was sold these rooms 11 December 2002, lot 68 (£8,692). A similarly signed single basket top clock was sold Christie's New York, 23 November 2010, lot 438 ($8,125). Two makers called James Markwick, father and son, are recorded in London in the late 17th and early 18th Century. A double basket top bracket clock by James Markwick is illustrated in P. Dawson, The Iden Clock Collection, Antique Collectors' Club, 1987, p. 237.

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