Chapter III: Preface: 11

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 21

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTORY NOTE 27

Time and its measurement--Day and night--Early mechanism--The
domestic clock--The personal clock--Rapid phases of
invention--The dawn of science--The great English masters of
clockmaking--The several branches of a great art--What to value
and what to collect--Hints for beginners

CHAPTER II

THE BRASS LANTERN CLOCK 45

The domestic clock--Its use as a bracket or wall
clock--Seventeenth-century types--Continuance of manufacture in
provinces--Their appeal to the collector

CHAPTER III

THE LONG-CASE CLOCK--THE PERIOD OF VENEER
AND MARQUETRY 67

What is veneer?--What is marquetry?--The use of veneer and
marquetry on long-case clocks--No common origin of design--_Le
style réfugié_--Derivative nature of marquetry clock-cases--The
wall-paper period--The incongruities of marquetry

CHAPTER IV

THE LONG-CASE CLOCK--THE PERIOD OF LACQUER 105

What is lac?--Its early introduction into this country--"The
Chinese taste"--Colour _versus_ form--Peculiarities of the
lacquered clock-case--The English school--English amateur
imitators--Painted furniture not lacquered work--The inn clock

CHAPTER V

THE LONG-CASE CLOCK--THE GEORGIAN PERIOD 131

The stability of the "grandfather" clock--The burr-walnut
period--Thomas Chippendale--The mahogany period--Innovations of
form--The Sheraton style--Marquetry again employed in decoration

CHAPTER VI

THE EVOLUTION OF THE LONG-CASE CLOCK 153

Its inception--Its Dutch origin--The changing forms of the
hood, the waist, and the base--The dial and its character--The
ornamentation of the spandrel--The evolution of the hands

CHAPTER VII

THE BRACKET CLOCK 179

The term "bracket clock" a misnomer--The great series of English
table or mantel clocks--The evolution of styles--Their competition
with French elaboration

CHAPTER VIII

PROVINCIAL CLOCKS 211

Their character--Names of clockmakers found on clocks in the
provinces--The North of England: Newcastle-upon-Tyne--Yorkshire
clockmakers: Halifax and the district--Liverpool and
the district--The Midlands--The Home Counties--The West
Country--Miscellaneous makers

CHAPTER IX

SCOTTISH AND IRISH CLOCKS 255

David Ramsay, Clockmaker Extraordinary to James I--Some
early "knokmakers"--List of eighteenth-century Scottish
makers--Character of Scottish clocks--Irish clockmakers: Dublin,
Belfast, Cork--List of Irish clockmakers

CHAPTER X

A FEW NOTES ON WATCHES 281

The age of Elizabeth--Early Stuart watches--Cromwellian
period--Watches of the Restoration--The William and Mary
watch--Eighteenth-century watches--Pinchbeck and the toy
period--Battersea enamel and shagreen

INDEX 295

ILLUSTRATIONS

BRASS LANTERN CLOCK BY JOHN BUSHMAN, 1680 _Frontispiece_

CHAPTER II.--THE BRASS LANTERN CLOCK PAGE

Ship's Lantern of Silver (Danish) 47

Early Lantern Clock by Bartholomew Newsam 47

Seventeenth-century Brass Clocks, showing pendulum at front
and at back 51

Brass Lantern Clock by Daniel Quare, 1660 55

" " " with two hands and anchor pendulum 55

" " " with long pendulum, chains and weights 57

" " " by Thomas Tompion (1671-1713) 61

CHAPTER III.--THE LONG-CASE CLOCK--THE PERIOD OF VENEER AND
MARQUETRY

Long-case Clock. Maker, Jas. Leicester 75

" " " by J. Windmills, _c._ 1705 77

" " " enlargement of dial 77

" " " by Henry Harper (1690-5) 81

" " " by Martin (London), 1710 85

" " " in marquetry, "all over" style 87

Chest of Drawers (William and Mary period), showing use
of marquetry clock panel 93-5

CHAPTER IV.--THE LONG-CASE CLOCK--THE PERIOD OF
LACQUER

Long-case Clock by Joseph Dudds (1766-82) 115

" " " by Kenneth Maclennan (1760-80) 117

Inn Clock by John Grant (Fleet Street), _c._ 1785 125

<sc>Chapter V.--The Long-case Clock--the Georgian Period</sc>

Long-case Clock by Henderson, _c._ 1770 133

" " " by Thomas Wagstaff, _c._ 1780 137

" " " by Stephen Rimbault, case by Robert
Adam, _c._ 1775 139

Musical Long-case Clock (top portion) 143

Long-case Clock by James Hatton (1800-12) 145

Regulator Long-case Clock by Robert Molyneux & Sons (1825) 149

Enlargement of dial 149

CHAPTER VI.--THE EVOLUTION OF THE LONG-CASE CLOCK

Brass Dial by Henry Massy, _c._ 1680 159

" " by John Draper, _c._ 1703 159

Enlargements of Dials by John Bushman and Henry Massy 163

English Wood-carving, Cherub's Head (seventeenth century) 167

Brass Spandrel from Clock, Henry Massy (1680) 167

Stretcher of William and Mary Chair (detail) 171

Brass Spandrel of Dial of Clock 171

CHAPTER VII.--THE BRACKET CLOCK

Bracket Clocks by:--

Sam Watson (Coventry), 1687. Joseph Knibb (Oxon), 1690 181

Thomas Loomes (London), 1700. Thomas Johnson (London), 1730 183

John Page (Ipswich), 1740. Godfrey Poy (London), 1745 187

Johnson (London), 1760. Thomas Hill (London), 1760 189

American Clock by Savin & Dyer (Boston), 1780-1800 193

Staffordshire Copper Lustre Ware Vase, with painted Clock Dial 195

Bracket Clocks by:--

Alexander Cumming (London), 1770. Anonymous, 1800 199

Barraud (London), 1805. Strowbridge (Dawlish) 201

Biddell (London), 1800. Anonymous (1800-15) 205

Ebony Table Clock, decorated with Wedgwood Medallions 207