A fine early 18th century and later walnut bracket clock with bracket. Having a 7"...

A fine early 18th century and later walnut bracket clock with bracket. Having a 7" (17.75cm)break-arched brass dial with Roman hours, Arabic minutes, fleur-de-lis half hour divisions and inner single-hand track, framing a matted centre with engraved sun over ringed winding squares and a terrestrial calendar aperture within engraved gabled surround, the mask-centred baroque spandrels beneath an arch with engraved foliate chevron border over signature "Dan'l Quare London, inverted mock pendulum window and silvered pierced Strike/Silent option between cast mounts. The wire-driven twin-fusee movement having five knopped and finned pillars, the verge escapement quarter-chiming on three bells and striking on a fourth, with fine engraving to the foliate backplate, lozenge border and pierced apron, the later figured walnut case (custom-built in the 1980s at a cost of ú4,000) with ogee caddy top and knopped brass carry handle over moulded cornice, conforming break-arch glazed door with pierced silk-backed fret spandrels, and moulded apron between arch-glazed side panels on block feet, 16", (41cm) high, sold with matching bracket a further 11", (28cm) high.

Literature: for a matching pierced apron and similar backplate, signed 'John Clowes' but attributed to Henry Jones, see Dawson, Drover & Parkes, 'Early English Clocks', ACC 1994 (Reprint), p. 402 plate 571.