A Charles II olivewood striking table clock

A Charles II olivewood striking table clock

William Knottesford, London

The ebony-moulded case, originally on turntable base with ogee moulded narrow caddy to the top with integral drawer, plain oyster frieze above the front door with ebonised twist columns having gilt-metal elaborate Corinthian capitals, gilt-metal eagle escutcheon, narrow glazed sides, the 9in. sq. dial signed William Knottesford, London beneath the replaced narrow silvered chapter ring with pierced and sculpted blued steel hands, the finely matted centre with subsidiary seconds ring and calendar aperture, finely chased winged cherub spandrels, latches to the dial feet and to the eight ringed pillars of the movement with shouldered plates, split front plate, twin gut fusees, verge escapement, inside countwheel strike on a bell, replaced bolt-and-shutter maintaining power, the movement now secured with two brass locking bars to the base pillars and with later seatboard

18¼in. (46cm.) high