Property of a Private Collection, Florida
Daniel Quare, A George I Burr Walnut Month-Going Tall Case Clock, Circa 1715
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April 4, 02:54 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Daniel Quare, A George I Burr Walnut Month-Going Tall Case Clock, Circa 1715
dial and a silvered cartouche inscribed This Clock goes unequally true, according to apparent time, and with large calendar dial in the arch and elaborate finely worked mask and scroll spandrels. The month going movement with bolt and shutter maintaining power, the dial in the arch marked with month and date equation of time, the central winding square operating a rise and fall pendulum adjustment. The movement contained in burl walnut case, the flat topped hood with attached columns heavy brass capitals and bases, pierced fret above the dial and side windows, the waist door with book matched veneers, the whole raised on a stepped plinth; bearing a printed label on the door Wetherfield/ Collection of Clocks/ acquired by Arthur S. Vernay Incorporated/ 19 East S4th Street/New York/ Trafalgar Housel Waterloo Place, London/ No. in Sale Catalogue 216/ Purchased by Charles E. Dunlap and signed at the bottom A. S. Vernay 1928; also bearing a printed description of the clock with inked inscription 'Grange Cottage 34, Amerland Rd. S. W./ A.E. Rutherford/ May 1913’
height 90 in.; width 19 in; depth 10 ¼ in.
228.6 cm; 18.3 cm; 26 cm
A. E. Rutherford, May 1913, Grange Cottage, 34 Amerland Rd. S. W.
Wetherfield Collection of Clocks;
Arthur S. Vernay Inc.
No. 216 in sale catalogue purchased by Charles E. Dunlap;
Sold, Replica Shoes Parke Bernet, The Estate of the Late Mrs. Charles E. Dunlap, 3, 4 and 6 December 1975, lot 443
Vernay and Jussel, New York;
Sold, Replica Shoes ’s New York, the collection of Mr & Mrs Saul P Steinberg, 26 May 2000, Lot 191
W. E. Hurcomb, The Wetherfield Collection, London 1928, p. 16
Arthur S. Vernay, The Wetherfield Collection of English Clocks, exhibition catalogue, 1928, p. 35, fig. 53
Eric Bruton, FBHI, The Wetherfield Collection of Clocks, London 1981, p. 200, fig. 172
This clock shows solar time in accordance with that shown on a sun dial and therefore is not in accordance with Greenwich Mean Time as we know it today. This is the meaning of the inscription on the silver plaque on the dial. The solar time is achieved by means of an irregularly shaped disc which acts from the main barrel to raise and lower the pendulum, thus making the clock go slower and faster. This invention was perhaps made by Quare, although it is often credited to Joseph Williamson (who worked for Quare) because he produced many more of them, and, alternatively to Tompion, who made one for William III in about 1695 and is still in the Royal Collection.
Daniel Quare (1648-1724) was a maker of great repute and once held the Royal appointment as watch and clock maker to George I, despite his refusal to take the oath of allegiance to the King, as he was a Quaker. He is credited with the invention of the repeating watch, and various other scientific instruments. He was a Master of the Clockmaker's Company in 1708.
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