A QUEEN ANNE WALNUT AND MARQUETRY MONTH-GOING STRIKING LONGCASE CLOCK
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A QUEEN ANNE WALNUT AND MARQUETRY MONTH-GOING STRIKING LONGCASE CLOCK

NICHOLAS LAMBERT, LONDON, CIRCA 1710

已結束2017年11月15日

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GBP 8,750

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A QUEEN ANNE WALNUT AND MARQUETRY MONTH-GOING STRIKING LONGCASE CLOCK
NICHOLAS LAMBERT, LONDON, CIRCA 1710
CASE: with stepped domed hood, the trunk door with glass lenticle, the hood lacking a fretwork section and its finials, the plinth with later skirting DIAL: engraved brass dial with silvered chapter ring, Roman hours and Arabic five minutes, subsidiary seconds ring and date aperture, signed Nicholas Lambert/LONDON MOVEMENT: the month duration movement with five pillars, recoil anchor escapement, rack strike to bell, strike/no strike lever and formerly with alarm, with later seatboard
92 ¼ in. (234 cm.) high; 20 in. (51 cm.) wide; 11 in. (28 cm.) deep

With Antike Uhren Hubert Schley, Munich, Germany.

專家說明

This style of case appears to be distinctive to Lambert. See T. Robinson, The Longcase Clock, Woodbridge, 1981, p. 109 for two similar examples by Lambert with cases in opposing marquetry (première-partie and contre-partie). These clocks also have similar dials with turbaned head spandrels.