A good mid 18th century brass-bound ebonised quarter repeating table clock The dial and the back...

A good mid 18th century brass-bound ebonised quarter repeating table clock The dial and the backplate signed Godfrie Poy, London The turned handle on a brass-bound caddy framed by finials to each corner over long glazed side panels to a brass-bound base on ogee bracket feet, the 6.75' arched brass dial with strike/silent subsidiary over a Roman and Arabic chapter ring, the finely matted centre with chamfered mock pendulum aperture revealing the silvered signature plaque, over a chamfered date aperture, the twin gut fusee movement united by six knopped pillars, with knife-edge verge escapement, rack striking the hours on a bell and repeating the quarters on a run of six graduated bells and hammers, signed in flowing script across the backplate amid a symmetrical pattern of foliate scrollwork, 52cms high Footnotes: Godfrey Poy worked in at least three fashionable addresses in central London from 1718 to 1753 including Pall Mall and Haymarket. He was capable of exceptional work; a very rare quarter chiming table clock in a padouk wood case was sold in these rooms from the Cortlandt Moore collection of fine clocks on 16th December 2015, lot 89 for a hammer price of £25,000. Barder, in 'The Georgian Bracket Clock', ACC 1993 illustrates 'A very fine musical clock with an ebonised case, brass mounts and engraved brass sound frets. Circa 1740.' A similar table clock by Godfrie Poy was sold in these rooms on 13th December 2017, lot 103. In common with the current lot, it had a brass bound caddy and base, and remarkably, it's side frets were signed for the case maker, the German craftsman Johan Diederick von Holle. Although the current case is not signed, it is quite possible that it emanated from the same workshop. Of that 2017 case, Roger Smith wrote at the time 'It was extremely unusual for the casemaker of an eighteenth century English clock to put his name prominently on the case. Unlike the position in some other parts of Europe, this was not required by London guild regulations, and the clock sellers, whether they had themselves made the movement or were simply retailers, would normally have been reluctant to advertise the supplier of the case. John Holl, who made the case for this clock, was an immigrant cabinet and clock case maker who lived in the same parish of St Anne Soho as the clockmaker Godfrie Poy. His full name was Johan Diederick von Holle, and he appears to have been part of a wider circle of immigrant craftsmen from North Germany and southern Scandinavia associated with Poy. Although Holl's Will, proved in 1757, names various close relatives, it does not give their location, apart from an unmarried sister living with him in Soho. [1] However, one of his executors was the well-known chaser, engraver and metal worker Diederick Nicolaus Anderson (d. 1769), who was probably from Flensburg in Schleswig, which was then part of Denmark but is now in Germany. [2]. Holl's other executor was a 'Gunner Mathison' - perhaps for Gunnar Mathieson in Danish. Interestingly, Godfrie Poy's daughter married another immigrant German cabinet and clock case maker, Valentine Anscheutz. [3] This might suggest that Poy had a preference for the work of casemakers from this region. [4]' Notes. 1. The National Archives: PCC Wills, Prob 11/827. Will of Johan Holl, otherwise Johan Diederick Von Holle, proved London 3 January 1757. 2. For Anderson's work, see Nicholas Goodison, Matthew Boulton: Ormolu (2nd ed. 2002), p. 38 and the references given there. 3. Anscheutz, who was an Elder of the German Lutheran church in the Savoy, married Mary Ann Poy 20 May 1754, at St Martin's in the Fields, Westminster. He is known to have done work for Gray and Vulliamy in the early 1760s, and for James Cox of Shoe Lane in the 1770s. When he died in 1796, one of his executors was the immigrant Swedish silversmith Andrew Fogelberg. 4. There is an interesting discussion of German cabinet makers working in 18C London in Christopher Gilbert and Tessa Murdoch (eds), John Channon and brass-inlaid furniture 1730-1760 (Yale 1993), chapter 4 - 'The Continental context: Germany' by Helena Hayward and Sarah Medlam, pp. 24-36. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * TP * VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium. TP For auctions held in Scotland: Lots will be moved to an offsite storage location (Constantine, Constantine House, North Caldeen Road, Coatbridge ML5 4EF, Scotland, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please refer to the catalogue for further information. 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