A WALNUT AND ARABESQUE MARQUETRY EIGHT-DAY LONGCASE CLOCK

A WALNUT AND ARABESQUE MARQUETRY EIGHT-DAY LONGCASE CLOCKTHE MOVEMENT AND DIAL BY JOSEPH JACKEMAN, LONDON, CIRCA 1700The five finned and latched pillar inside countwheel bell striking movement with anchor escapement regulated by seconds pendulum, the 11.25 inch square brass dial with subsidiary seconds dial and bold ringed winding holes and calendar aperture to the finely matted centre within applied Roman numeral chapter ring with generous fleur-de-lys half hour markers, small Arabic five minutes beyond the minute track and signed Jos: Jackeman, Londini fecit to lower margin, with bold scroll-pierced blued steel hands and winged cherub mask scroll cast spandrels to angles incorporating foliate engraved infill decoration to the plate between, in a case with generous ogee moulded cornice and foliate scroll-pierced fret to frieze over hinged front with glazed dial aperture within foliate Arabesque veneered surround applied with Solomonic twist turned three-quarter columns to front angles, the sides with rectangular windows and conforming quarter columns set against bargeboards at the rear, the trunk with convex throat over 40.5 inch rectangular door veneered with marquetry foliate strapwork executed in the Barianesque manner inhabited with Ho-Ho- birds and grotesques, centred with a brass lenticle and with complex moulded edge, with conforming repeating leafy scroll decoration to surround and the sides with twin shaped line-bordered panels, the plinth base with complex architectural top moulding over conforming marquetry panel-decorated fascia within banded surround, on ogee moulded skirt, (the case probably Dutch).205cm (80.5ins) high; 51cm (20ins) wide, 27cm (10.ins) deep at the cornice. Joseph Jack(e)man is recorded in Loomes, Brian Clockmakers of Britain 1286-1700 as apprenticed in the Clothworker's Company in 1669 for seven years, and was made free of that Company in 1681. He promised the Clockmaker's Company, in September 1682, that he would join at the next quarter court, but did not. This suggests that he working as a clockmaker outside the control of the Clockmaker's Company, hence would be liable to a fine/prosecution if he was seen to be trading. In 1695 he was living with his wife, Margaret, in the parish of St. Magnus the Martyr. His name does not appear on an oath of allegiance for any of the livery companies in 1697, however a possible second marriage to Ann Ashley is recorded as taking place at St Dunstan's Stepney that year. Loomes further notes that Baillie records him as working until 1716.Condition Report: Movement is in relatively clean working condition with no visible evidence of alteration or noticeable replacements. The dial has a loss to the lower right hand corner of the plate (mostly not visible when movement is in the case) otherwise is generally in good clean condition. The movement and dial are fitted with a non-original seatboard which rests directly onto the cheek uprights of case (which appear undisturbed). As catalogued the case is almost certainly Dutch in origin hence is most likely not original to the movement and dial (unless the movement and dial were originally supplied/exported uncased for 'casing-up' locally in The Netherlands).Case is generally in very good original condition with faults very much limited to minor bumps, scuffs, shrinkage, wear and other blemishes commensurate with age and use. Clock is complete with two weights pendulum, case key and winder. Condition Report Disclaimer