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Click here to subscribeA pair of Chinese ivory table screens and stands, Qing dynasty, each rectangular panel carved and stained with a woman in a garden, the reverse with lines of verse above a panel carved and stained with a bird amongst flowering branches, the stands surmounted by lion dogs and carved with openwork floral and foliate designs, 27cm high, (2). Illustrated
A Japanese black lacquer two door table cabinet, Meiji period, of rectangular form, decorated in raised gold lacquer with a ho-o bird flying amongst branches of pine, fitted with two long and two short drawers and a door opening to reveal two further small drawers, 36.5cm.high by 44cm. wide.
A giltmetal-mounted ebonised table clockTh movement inscribed John Berry, LondonThe case with a bell top surmounted by a brass carrying handle, above front door with arched glazed panel, with glazed sides and back door, on plinth base and four ogee bracket feet, the later 7in. arched brass dial with two subsidaries in the arch for strike/silent and slow/fast, above a silvered chapter ring, enclosing a matted centre with false pendulum and calendar aperture, the twin train fusée movement with verge escapement, florally engraved backplate and engraved John Berry London within a shaped rectangle, the movement late 18th century with restorations and replacement, the case associated and of the period, restorations, the dial later51cm high
A giltmetal-mounted quarter repeating ebonised bracket timepiece By John Ebsworth, London, the movement late 17th century, in a replica caseThe case with a domed top above scrolled handle and pierced mount with four vase finials, with glazed front door and pierced sound fret, glazed bar door and a glazed panel to each side, the 6 3/4in. square brass dial, with cherub mask spandrels, silvered chapter ring with large trefoil intersectors, blued steel pierced hands, matted centre with engraved centre rose, harboured winding aperture and calendar aperture above the VI, the fusée movement with four finely turned pillars, latched to teh plates, with verge escapement and one-in-passing strike, signed backplate with floral engraving, with vertically mounted bells, the dial possibly replaced38cm highJohn Ebsworth is recorded as apprenticed in 1657, a member of the Clockmakers' Company from 1665 until his death in 1699.See Sunny Dzik, Engraving on English Table Clocks, Oxford 2019, p. 58, Fig. 5.14 for another backplate signed Ebsworth with the same distinctive tulips.
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