CASE: the bell top with ringed loop handle, arched door with sound frets to the angles, the arched sides with pierced frets with silk backing, glazed aperture to the rear door, on a plain moulded spreading foot, rear door with impressed inventory stamp ‘269A’, the underside with brass covered aperture to start pendulum, with exhibition and collection labels to underside
DIAL: 3¹⁄₂ inch arched dial plate, the inset silver champleve chapter ring with Roman hours and Arabic five minutes, half-hour markers, the matted centre with date aperture and signature reserves ‘D.HUBERT / LONDON’, pierced hour and minute hands, ‘STRIKE / SILENT’ subsidiary dial to the arch, the plate applied with brass spandrels engraved with trailing foliage and cherubs
MOVEMENT: the twin train movement with plates joined by seven pillars, chain fusees with verge escapement, hour strike to bell and pull repeat via three hammers, the backplate profusely engraved with floral garlands and foliage
10¹⁄₄ in. (26 cm.) high, handle down; 6¹⁄₈ in. (15.5 cm.) wide; 5 in. (12.7 cm.) deep

Percival D. Griffiths Collection, until sold;
Christie’s, London, 10-12 May 1939, lot 109 (£304, 10s, 0d to Mallett).
Walter J. Iden Collection, London.
With Ronald A. Lee, London, by 1962.

Antiquarian Horology, volume III, number 10, Ronald A. Lee advertisement, p. 282.
C.I.N.O.A. International Art Treasures Exhibition, Victoria & Albert Museum, 2 March – 29 April 1962, Exhibit no. 195, p. 26, pl. 127.
Percy G. Dawson, The Iden Clock Collection, Woodbridge, 1987, volume IV, no.122, pp. 272-3.
Antique Collecting, volume 25, number 9, March 1991, front cover illustration, courtesy R. A. Lee.
Christian Jussel and William DeGregorio, English Furniture 1680-1760, The Percival D. Griffiths Collection, New Haven and London, 2023, volume 1, p. 241.

B.A.D.A. The Fourth Antique Dealers’ Fair and Exhibition, 24 September - 15 October 1937.
The ‘Old London’ loan exhibition, 45 Park Lane, 15 February - 10 April 1938, exhibit no. 208.
C.I.N.O.A. International Art Treasures Exhibition, Victoria & Albert Museum, 2 March – 29 April 1962, exhibit no. 195.
C.I.N.O.A. International Art Treasures Exhibition, Assembly Rooms, Bath, 1973, exhibit. no. 134.

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