17TH CENTURY ANTIQUE EBONY AND GILT TABLE CLOCK BY EDWARD BURGIS OF LONDON
17TH CENTURY ANTIQUE EBONY AND GILT TABLE CLOCK BY EDWARD BURGIS OF LONDON
Date United Kingdom, circa 1685
Medium Ebony
Dimension 33 x 27 x 16 cm (13⁰/₁ x 10⁵/₈ x 6¹/₄ inches)
The three-train verge fusee movement quarter-strikes on two bells and has a beautifully engraved backplate with tulips and scrollwork, and the maker's name 'Edward Burgis Londini fecit'.
Date: United Kingdom, circa 1685
Medium: Ebony
Dimension: 33 x 27 x 16 cm (13⁰/₁ x 10⁵/₈ x 6¹/₄ inches)
Literature: Edward Burgis lived in St Saviour's Southwark. Although he seems never to have joined the Clockmakers' Company, he was well respected by them and was asked to adjudicate a clockmaking contest on their behalf. Longcase, bracket, and lantern clocks by him survive. He was active from probably the 1670s until well into the first quarter of the 18th century.
See Brian Loomes, Clockmakers of Britain 1286-1700 (2014), p. 102.
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