| Description: | An impressive fruitwood high arch case with step moulding to the pagoda top supported by exquisitely pierced and engraved silk backed brass frets, the top surmounted by a stem and ball finial and four similar finials to the corners. The fluted canted columns with inset brass decoration and fine quality capitals. The glazed sides with brass carrying handles above, the brass feet of ogee pattern. The profusely engraved arched brass dialplate with an enamelled chapter ring 7 1/4 inches diameter with Roman numerals, minute and five minute markings, the hands of finely pierced brass and in the dial arch above subsidiary dials for slow/fast regulation and strike/silent. The substantial, three train fusee movement with six knopped pillars, the plates of heavy gauge brass and well finished wheels and pinions throughout, having an anchor escapement with a rise and fall device for regulation of the heavy engraved lenticular pendulum. The quarter hours chiming with eight hammers on a nest of eight polished bells, the hours on a further bell. The backplate with pendulum lock, an engraved border and signed in a central cartouche, John Jardin London. John Jardin is known to have been working in Bartholomew Lane, London in 1777 before moving to Throgmorton Street by 1800. He was made Free of the Clockmakers' Company in 1740 and was a Liveryman 1796-1811 |
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