Jacques Hory, Paris, Circa 1675 A good walnut striking wall clock with fine carved cresting
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Exhibit № 20
Jacques Hory
St Germain, Paris,
Circa 1675
A good Louis XIV walnut and ebonised spring-driven striking wall clock with fine carved cresting
Height
13¼ inches (336 mm)
Case
The carcass veneered in tight-grained walnut, the glazed dial door flanked by gilt capped ebonised Tuscan pilasters on integral plinths, the sides with full-height glazed panels, the moulded cornice surmounted by a superbly executed three-sided carved scroll cresting of Knibb pattern centred by a winged cherub to the front, the moulded, shallow plinth base raised on turned brass feet.
Dial
Gilt brass 6 inch (152 mm) rectangular dial plate with matted centre, eccentric winding aperture by VI/VII and central date aperture below VI, silvered brass Roman chapter ring with Arabic 5-minute numerals within the minute track and trident half-hour marks, pierced blued steel hands of Knibb pattern, and gilt brass winged cherub spandrels.
Duration
30 hour
Movement
Of typical French pattern, the tandem going/striking spring-barrel and verge escapement within rectangular plates, the four pillars pinned on the backplate signed along its base Jacques Hory, A/Paris, St Germain and with external countwheel, its blued steel detent with similar, bowed spring engaging with its sculpted, curved tail.
Escapement
Verge with silk-suspended short pendulum
Strike Type
Large external hour countwheel with locking lever U-spring
Provenance
The RA Lee Collection, 2000, until sold for £10,000;
John C Taylor Collection, inventory no.58
Literature
Antiquarian Horology, December 2002, John C Taylor, ‘Joseph Knibb’s first Grande Sonnerie Clock?’ p.198-201, (illus.) fig.2 and 3
This clock came from the personal collection of Ronald Lee, and it was the renowned Knibb author that first highlighted the similarities of elements of this Paris clock case, dial and hands to the output of the Knibb family, which was re-iterated by John C Taylor in his article for Antiquarian Horology in 2002.
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