A fine and rare first period steel lantern clock handAnonymous, second quarter of the 17th centuryMade from forged sculpted steel with unusual elongated chamfered oblong boss and rounded filed tapered shaft decorated with a banded collar at the root and terminating with twin scrolled barbs issuing from the pointed tip terminating with a tiny lozenge finial, the tail of conforming shorter profile terminating with an acorn finial, from centre to tip 5.7cm (2.25ins); 8.9cm (3.5ins) long overall. The current hand is of a design that originated in the early 17th century with versions appearing on examples by William Bowyer amongst others and remained popular until the Civil War. In particular William Bowyer used a very similar design of hand for a clock illustrated in White, George English Lantern Clocks on page 67 (Figure II/52).
A fine and rare first period steel lantern clock handAnonymous, second quarter of the 17th centuryMade from forged sculpted steel with unusual elongated chamfered oblong boss and rounded filed tapered shaft decorated with a banded collar at the root and terminating with twin scrolled barbs issuing from the pointed tip terminating with a tiny lozenge finial, the tail of conforming shorter profile terminating with an acorn finial, from centre to tip 5.7cm (2.25ins); 8.9cm (3.5ins) long overall. The current hand is of a design that originated in the early 17th century with versions appearing on examples by William Bowyer amongst others and remained popular until the Civil War. In particular William Bowyer used a very similar design of hand for a clock illustrated in White, George English Lantern Clocks on page 67 (Figure II/52).
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