LOT 184 A Queen Anne walnut eight-day longcase clock with moonphase
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A Queen Anne walnut eight-day longcase clock with moonphase Simon DeCharmes, London, circa 1710 The five finned pillar rack and bell striking movement with anchor escapement regulated by seconds pendulum, the 12 inch brass break-arch dial with ringed winding holes, subsidiary seconds dial and calendar aperture to the matted centre within applied Roman numeral chapter ring with fleur-de-lys half hour markers and Arabic five minutes to outer track, with steel hands and mask and scroll cast spandrels to angles beneath shallow-profile arch centred with a subsidiary 'penny-moon' dial incorporating engraved lunar disc to verso and ring engraved for the age of the lunar month to circumference flanked by unusual winged cherub inhabited scroll cast gilt mounts, the case now with generous break-arch cornice over hinged glazed dial aperture and rectangular side windows to hood, the trunk with 41 inch quarter-veneered rectangular door and sides incorporating veneered panels within crossbanded front and rear margins, on conforming plinth base with generous cavetto skirt, (case with alterations), 217cm (85.5ins) high. Simon DeCharmes was a French Huguenot immigrant clockmaker who is recorded in Baillie G.H. Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World as working from circa 1688, he became a free brother of the Clockmaker's Company in 1691 and is thought to have been working in London until around 1730 before possibly returning to Paris.
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