A WILLIAM AND MARY EBONY BRACKET CLOCK

A WILLIAM AND MARY EBONY BRACKET CLOCK

BY CHARLES HALSTED LONDON, LATE 17TH CENTURY

the brass eight day movement with five turned and finned pillars and a verge escapement, striking the quarters on three bells and the hours on a separate bell, with pull-repeat, the backplate finely engraved with scrolling leaves and with a signature panel, inscribed 'Charle Halsted London', the brass seven inch square dial with a silvered chapter ring, with Roman and Arabic numerals, signed 'Char Halsted London', with a matted centre, with a false pendulum and date apertures, with scroll blued steel hands and cherub spandrels, the case with a pad top with a brass handle, with fret panels, on flattened bun feet

37cm high, 26cm wide

Provenance

Purchased by the vendor from Richard Barder Antique Clocks in 1992.

From a Private Cornish Country Estate.

Catalogue Note

Charles Halstead, active between 1656-1705. He was apprenticed to the Clockmaker's Company in 1670 and was free in September 1677. He died in 1705.