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拍品专文
When purchased from Asprey in 1973, Tom Craig engaged the redoubtable triumvirate of Dan Parkes, Percy Dawson and Charles Drover to inspect the clock.
COMPARATIVE CLOCKS AT AUCTION
This clock may be compared to an architectural ebonised pear-wood longcase clock by East sold Christie's, London, 6 December 2006, lot 112, (£355,200); a silver-mounted example by Ahasuerus Fromanteel, sold Bonhams, London, 15 December 2009, lot 103, (£400,800); and a small laburnum oyster veneered longcase clock by East sold Christie’s, London, 23 May 2012, lot 350 (£313,250).
EDWARD EAST (1602-1696)
East was perhaps the most influential and certainly one of the most important clockmakers of the seventeenth century. He led a remarkable life having survived the Plague, the Civil War and the Great Fire of London, despite losing his premises and presumably much of his stock. Formerly of the Goldsmiths' Company, apprenticed to Richard Rogers in 1618, made free in 1626, East was one of the ten original assistants when the Clockmaker's Company was incorporated in 1631. He was elected Second Warden of the Clockmakers' Company in 1638, Upper Warden in 1640 and was twice Master, in 1645 and 1653. He worked in Pall Mall in the 1620s, at 'The musical Clock, Fleet Street' in the 1640s, where he apparently held Clockmaker's Company court meetings, later at 'The Sun, outside Temple Bar'. Of his eight known apprentices probably Henry Jones was the most celebrated, and his early clocks show East's influence. From Southill in Bedfordshire, East was a Royalist and is thought to have made clocks and watches for Charles I before being granted office as Chief Clockmaker and Keeper of the Privy Clocks in 1660 under Charles II. East left a considerable estate and in later life gave £100 to the Clockmaker's Company for the benefit of poor members. East’s focus appears to have moved from being predominantly watch-maker to clock-maker at the time the pendulum was introduced.
COMPARATIVE CLOCKS AT AUCTION
This clock may be compared to an architectural ebonised pear-wood longcase clock by East sold Christie's, London, 6 December 2006, lot 112, (£355,200); a silver-mounted example by Ahasuerus Fromanteel, sold Bonhams, London, 15 December 2009, lot 103, (£400,800); and a small laburnum oyster veneered longcase clock by East sold Christie’s, London, 23 May 2012, lot 350 (£313,250).
EDWARD EAST (1602-1696)
East was perhaps the most influential and certainly one of the most important clockmakers of the seventeenth century. He led a remarkable life having survived the Plague, the Civil War and the Great Fire of London, despite losing his premises and presumably much of his stock. Formerly of the Goldsmiths' Company, apprenticed to Richard Rogers in 1618, made free in 1626, East was one of the ten original assistants when the Clockmaker's Company was incorporated in 1631. He was elected Second Warden of the Clockmakers' Company in 1638, Upper Warden in 1640 and was twice Master, in 1645 and 1653. He worked in Pall Mall in the 1620s, at 'The musical Clock, Fleet Street' in the 1640s, where he apparently held Clockmaker's Company court meetings, later at 'The Sun, outside Temple Bar'. Of his eight known apprentices probably Henry Jones was the most celebrated, and his early clocks show East's influence. From Southill in Bedfordshire, East was a Royalist and is thought to have made clocks and watches for Charles I before being granted office as Chief Clockmaker and Keeper of the Privy Clocks in 1660 under Charles II. East left a considerable estate and in later life gave £100 to the Clockmaker's Company for the benefit of poor members. East’s focus appears to have moved from being predominantly watch-maker to clock-maker at the time the pendulum was introduced.