A Very Beautiful and Small George II
Ebony & Ebonised Gilt-Brass Mounted
Striking Table Clock with
Pull Quarter Repeat
by
Isaac Du Hamel
circa 1735
The pretty and well proportioned case has a gilt-brass baluster-form handle to the inverted
bell top with gilt-brass D-ended mouldings. Similar gilt-brass frame mouldings to the
glazed sides and to the front door with pierced brass quarter frets. The brass-bound
moulded base rests on ebonised fruitwood squab feet.
The 5 inch gilt-brass breakarch dial is signed Isaac Du Hamel on an engraved silvered
plaque in the false pendulum aperture in the matted centre with calendar aperture.
Silvered chapter ring having Roman and Arabic numerals with diamond-shaped half
quarter markers, fine quality pierced blued steel hands, foliate spandrels cast with Indians
with feather headdresses. The arch having a further silvered chapter ring for pendulum
regulation calibrated 5-60 with a blued steel hand and fine foliate engraved centre.
The movement has brass rectangular plates, five ring-turned baluster pillars, twin gut
fusees and spring barrels. The going train has a pivoted verge escapement with spring-
suspended pendulum having a foliate engraved brass bob. The striking train with hour
strike on a bell, the repeating system operating on a pull cord to the right side of the
case chiming the quarters on six bells via six hammers and with a rosette and wheatear
engraved brass pulley to the top left corner of the backplate. The backplate is finely
engraved in a geometric fashion on the vertical axis with scrolling foliage and flower
heads, the centre is finely engraved with a wicker basket filled with flowers. There is a
blued steel pendulum holdfast to the right centre and the whole backplate is framed within
wheatear border engraving. The movement is secured within the case by means of a steel
bolt through the underside of the case into the base pillar.
SIZE: 13¼ ins. (33.5cm.) high; 6 ins. (15cm.) deep; 8 ins. (20cm.) wide
PRICE: £28,000
Isaac Du Hamel is listed working in the Strand, London between 1731 and 1755
The combination of the pretty proportions, diminutive size and the elegant gilt-brass
mouldings combine to lift this clock head and shoulders above its contemporaries.
The simple, yet busy dial is easy on the eye and has a clear lay-out. The movement is
wonderfully original and finished off by a very pretty backplate which is symmetrically
engraved with attractive foliage and a wicker basket of flowers.
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