A GEORGE I WALNUT STRIKING EIGHT DAY TABLE CLOCK
Lot 256

A GEORGE I WALNUT STRIKING EIGHT DAY TABLE CLOCK

ANDREW DUNLOP, LONDON. CIRCA 1725

Closed27 September 2011

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GBP 2,500

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A GEORGE I WALNUT STRIKING EIGHT DAY TABLE CLOCK
ANDREW DUNLOP, LONDON. CIRCA 1725
With replaced brass handle to bell top, replaced ball finials, arched glazed side panels, with restorations to veneers and replaced mouldings, 7 in. wide brass dial with Indian mask spandrels to silvered chapter ring, false pendulum and date square to matted centre, strike silent disc to arch signed 'Andrew/Dunlop/LONDON', blued steel hands, movement with twin gut fusees, six ringed pillars, replaced verge escapement, rack strike on replaced bell, scored line border and foliate engraving to back plate; winding key, case key
17½ in. (44.5 cm.) high, handle down

Specialist note

Andrew Dunlop was Free of the Clockmakers' Company in 1701 and recorded working from Spread Eagle Court, Gray's Inn, London until 1732.