A CHARLES II OLIVEWOOD PHASE I STRIKING TABLE CLOCK

A CHARLES II OLIVEWOOD PHASE I STRIKING TABLE CLOCK

JOSEPH KNIBB, LONDON, CIRCA 1675

The 8 3/8 inch gilt-brass dial with date aperture to finely matted centre, cherub head spandrels and signed to the lower edge \'Joseph Knibb London\', blued steel hands, the chapter ring with sword-hilt half-hour markers, three pinned pillars, the two-train gut fusee movement joined by six latched pillars, with reconverted verge escapement, numbered countwheel to foliate engraved backplate, signed in an arc to the lower half \'Joseph Knibb Londini Fecit\'

14 5/8 in. (37 cm.) high (handle down); 12 in. (30.5 cm.) wide; 6 ¾ in. (17 cm.) deep