A GEORGE I EBONISED DUTCH-STRIKING AND QUARTER-CHIMING EIGHT DAY TABLE CLOCK WITH MOONPHASE
JOHN BERRY, LONDON. CIRCA 1730
A GEORGE I EBONISED DUTCH-STRIKING AND QUARTER-CHIMING EIGHT DAY TABLE CLOCK WITH MOONPHASE JOHN BERRY LONDON. CIRCA 1730 CASE: inverted bell top with brass ball finials and fine pierced wood sound frets, chamfered angles, conforming frets below ringed side handles, brass block feet DIAL: 8 in. wide brass dial with female bust and foliate spandrels to silvered chapter ring, date square and false pendulum to matted centre with recessed cartouche signed 'John Berry/LONDON', floral painted centres to subsidiaries for strike hours/silent and strike quarters/silent, painted rolling moon to engraved arch, blued steel hands MOVEMENT: seven ringed pillars, triple line fusees, verge escapement, quarter-striking on six replaced bells and Dutch striking on two further bells, the back plate profusely engraved with scrolling foliage; winding key 25½ in. (65 cm.) high; 14¼ in. (36 cm.) wide; 8¾ in. (22 cm.) deep
A GEORGE I EBONISED DUTCH-STRIKING AND QUARTER-CHIMING EIGHT DAY TABLE CLOCK WITH MOONPHASE
JOHN BERRY, LONDON. CIRCA 1730
A GEORGE I EBONISED DUTCH-STRIKING AND QUARTER-CHIMING EIGHT DAY TABLE CLOCK WITH MOONPHASE JOHN BERRY LONDON. CIRCA 1730 CASE: inverted bell top with brass ball finials and fine pierced wood sound frets, chamfered angles, conforming frets below ringed side handles, brass block feet DIAL: 8 in. wide brass dial with female bust and foliate spandrels to silvered chapter ring, date square and false pendulum to matted centre with recessed cartouche signed 'John Berry/LONDON', floral painted centres to subsidiaries for strike hours/silent and strike quarters/silent, painted rolling moon to engraved arch, blued steel hands MOVEMENT: seven ringed pillars, triple line fusees, verge escapement, quarter-striking on six replaced bells and Dutch striking on two further bells, the back plate profusely engraved with scrolling foliage; winding key 25½ in. (65 cm.) high; 14¼ in. (36 cm.) wide; 8¾ in. (22 cm.) deep
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