Lot 100
WILLIAM & MARY WALNUT, MARQUETRY AND OYSTER VENEERED LONGCASE CLOCK BY EDMUND APPLEY
CIRCA 1690
Auction: 5 March 2014 at 11:00 GMT
Description
the brass dial with silvered Roman numeral chapter and subsidiary seconds dial and date aperture, pierced brass spandrels, bearing maker's plaque signed 'Edmund Appley / Charing Cross' covering a second signature for 'Adamson Londini', flanked by spiral turned columns and surmounted by a blind fret carved frieze and broken swan neck pediment centred by a brass finial, the crossbanded trunk with a door with flowering urn marquetry panels and a lenticle, on a moulded plinth base; the thirty day movement striking on a bell
Dimensions
43cm wide, 216cm high
Footnote
Provenance:
Property from a private Scottish collection of clocks
Purchased S. Lampard & Son, London, 1961
Note: Edmund Appley, member of the Clockmaker's Company 1677-93, John Adamson, Clockmaker's Company 1686. While it is unusual for a clock to bear two different maker's names, it is not unheard of, as makers often bought stock from each other as demand allowed. It is feasible that the present clock dial, which bears the signature for Adamson, was purchased by Appley who added his own maker's plaque over the pre-existing inscription.