A good late 17th century ebonised table timepiece with hour and quarter repeat Henry Jones in the...

A good late 17th century ebonised table timepiece with hour and quarter repeat Henry Jones in the Temple The case with shallow caddy top set with twin repousse panels, surmounted by a substantial knopped and foliate handle on S-scroll uprights and internal pommels, framed by four bud finials and moulded cornice over glazed side panels and silk-backed repousse sound frets, the front and rear doors further mounted, on a plinth base and brass button feet, the 6.25 inch square brass dial with winged cherubs head spandrels framing the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring, the five-minute numerals interspersed by meeting arrow-head markers, the finely matted centre with chamfered and decorated date aperture at XII, ringed winding square, with blued-steel fettled hands, the single gut fusee movement united by six slender knopped and finned latched pillars, the barrel with raised lips, knife-edge verge escapement set in a cock with sliding cover, with brass rod and bob pendulum, repeating the hours and quarters on command via a pull cord to the left via a pair of hammers (the hours struck on a horizontal bell mounted on the frontplate, the quarters on a smaller vertical bell mounted on the backplate), signed in a foliate cartouche in the centre of the backplate within a foliate pattern containing four pairs of symmetrical flowerheads. Together with a pierced and engraved brass 'Knibb style' winding key, and a case key. 36cms (14inches) high (3) Footnotes: A very similar engraved backplate can be found in Dzik, S. Engraving on English Table Clocks: Art on a Canvas of Brass 1660-1800, p.401, Figure 6, right hand image. Image courtesy of Anthony Woodburn. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com