Beschreibung:

A William and Mary ebony striking table clock with pull quarter repeat Case and dial by Thomas Tompion No. 315, movement attributed to the workshops of Daniel Quare Circa 1695 The case with typical heavy mouldings, foliate cast gilt-metal handle and fret to the front door, later ebony frets to the sides, the 6¼ in. by 7 in. dial signed Tho Tompion Londinin Fecit in a wheatear engraved oval within floral engraving and flanked by silvered dials for pendulum regulation and strike/silent, silvered chapter ring with sword hilt half hour markers and finely pierced blued steel hands, the finely matted centre with calendar aperture with pin-hole adjustment and mock pendulum aperture, female mask-and-foliate spandrels, the substantially built movement with thick brass rectangular plates secured by five robust ringed pillars, pivoted verge escapement, the pendulum regulated on Tompion's system via rack-and-pinion and brass bar across the backplate suspending the pendulum, pull quarter repeat via a rosette-engraved pulley mounted on the backplate, the quarters chiming on four bells, the hour on a larger bell, the backplate profusely engraved with tight scrolling foliage, punch-numbered 315 at the base beneath the scored line border and centred by a foliate lambrequin engraved Tho Tompion Londini Fecit , the movement secured to the case by means of two steel bolts through the base into the base pillars 14 in. (35.5 cm.) high