FINE MAHOGANY CASED BRACKET CLOCK by Eardley Norton of LONDON C 1775
Eardley Norton is listed in Brittens “Old Clocks and Watches” as working from 1760 to1794 at 49 St John Street, Clerkenwell, and made many fine clocks including a 4 dial astronomical clock for King George III.
This particular bracket clock was probably made in about 1775.
The clock stands 23” high (including the handle), and has a centre calendar hand, and a strike silent dial in the arch. The dial centre is engraved with the maker’s name, and is numbered 2699. The richly engraved back plate and the case are also stamped with the same number.
The rack striking two train fusee 8 day movement has its original verge escapement, and short bob pendulum. It is fitted with a pull repeat and strikes the hours with the addition of a passing half hour strike. It is in excellent working order.
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THE MAKER - EARDLEY NORTON Eardley Norton was perhaps one of the most famous and talented clockmakers of the second half of the 18th Century and was based at 49 St John St, Clerkenwell, London. He was accepted into the Clockmakers Company in 1762 and is noted as a maker from 1771 to 1794. In 1771 he patented a striking mechanism for clocks and watches (pat no 987). He was appointed Royal Clockmaker to King George III and made an Astronomical Clock for him with four dials that is considered his finest work. He was paid at the time 1,042 pounds sterling, quite a considerable sum at the time, and it is now a part of the Royal Collection. Some of his more notable works have been noted at the National Museum of Stockholm (small cartel clock), Cassel Landes Museum, France (clock), Palace Museum, Peking (elaborate automator clock with organ), Virginia Museum, USA (bracket clock) and the Ibert Collection, British Museum (marine chronometer). In addition three watches made by him are part of the collection of “The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers” (“The Guildhall Collection”) and housed in the City of London. He is believed to have built up a thriving export business, particularly for his watches. Whilst these may have not been made to the highest quality those made for the domestic market were of top London Manufacture.
References: British Longcase Clocks, Derek Roberts Old Clocks and watches and their makers Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World Vol 1 G Baillie British Horological Journal May 2001 issue Royal Clocks, Cedric Jagger The Georgian Bracket Clock, Richard Barder |
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