Lot 212
A Charles II period ebonised striking table clock By Henry Jones, London
Auction: 19 March 2008 at 11:00 GMT
£18,000
Description
the lacquered brass dial with silvered Roman numeral chapter and angel mask spandrels, the matted centre with a date aperture, the movement with thick brass plates secured by seven baluster pillars, the twin train fusee movement with verge escapement and the back plate signed Henry Jones in the Temple and with a calibrated countwheel giving hour strike on a bell, within a panelled architectural arched ebonised case, raised on bracket feet
Dimensions
31cm wide, 44cm high, 14cm deep
Footnote
Note: the movement of this clock was exhibited at the British Clockmakers Heritage Exhibition at the Science Museum in 1952, catalogue number 91.