A9006

Silver Champleve Dial Pair Cased Verge

£3,900.00

Signed  Wm Holloway London
Circa   1700
A late 17th Century English verge with silver champleve dial in silver pair cases.
Diameter    57mm       Depth   19.5 mm

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Description

A late 17th Century English verge with silver champleve dial in silver pair cases.  Deep full plate fire gilt movement with Egyptian pillars.  Fusee and chain with worm and wheel barrel setup between the plates.  Pierced and engraved winged cock with mask, pierced and engraved foot.  Plain steel balance, silver regulator disc.  Signed silver champleve dial, Roman and Arabic numerals, pierced gilt hour hands, gilt poker minute.  Silver pair cases, silver pendant and bow.  The inner  with rotating shutter to the winding aperture,  maker's mark “BO” and number corresponding to that on the movement.  The plain silver outer case with maker's mark “IL” in a rectangle.

William Holloway, Free of the Clockmakers Company 1697 – 1723