98th Auction
2018/11/10
Lot 299
Henry Massy, London, Height 340 mm, circa 1710
An ornamental quarter repeating Bracket clock with carillon, hour strike and date indicator
Case: wood, gilt florally engraved and pierced mountings. Dial: silvered, window for visible pendulum. Movm.: rectangular brass full plate movement, signed, lavishly engraved, 4 hammers / 4 bells, 2 x steel rope/fusee for going and striking train, verge escapement, brass pendulum.
The beautifully ornamented case is crowned by an open-work pediment showing St George slaying the dragon.
According to Brian Loomes in "Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World", London 2006, p. 516, Henry Massy worked in Charles Street in London and was a member of the Clockmakers’ Company from 1692 until 1745. His father Nicolas (II) Massy was born in Blois in France and had come to London as a refugee, where he worked in Cranbourn Street; he had been a member of the Clockmakers Company from 1682 on and died in 1698. Father and son Massy were descendants of Nicolas (I) Massy, a renowned watchmaker in Blois, who became a master in 1623 and married in the same year. He was elected juré of the guild in 1646 and died in 1658.
We can assume that the Massy family never broke their ties to Blois.
An ornamental quarter repeating Bracket clock with carillon, hour strike and date indicator
Case: wood, gilt florally engraved and pierced mountings. Dial: silvered, window for visible pendulum. Movm.: rectangular brass full plate movement, signed, lavishly engraved, 4 hammers / 4 bells, 2 x steel rope/fusee for going and striking train, verge escapement, brass pendulum.
The beautifully ornamented case is crowned by an open-work pediment showing St George slaying the dragon.
According to Brian Loomes in "Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World", London 2006, p. 516, Henry Massy worked in Charles Street in London and was a member of the Clockmakers’ Company from 1692 until 1745. His father Nicolas (II) Massy was born in Blois in France and had come to London as a refugee, where he worked in Cranbourn Street; he had been a member of the Clockmakers Company from 1682 on and died in 1698. Father and son Massy were descendants of Nicolas (I) Massy, a renowned watchmaker in Blois, who became a master in 1623 and married in the same year. He was elected juré of the guild in 1646 and died in 1658.
We can assume that the Massy family never broke their ties to Blois.
Sold
estimated
6.000—10.000 €
Price realized
11.800 €