Beschreibung:

An early 19th century brass-mounted mahogany single pad top table clock with trip repeatthe dial and movement signed Thomas Pace the arched case surmounted by a cast brass handle on a brass-bound pad, over a finely moulded cornice, the sides with fish scale frets to a moulded base on brass ogee bracket feet, the front with brass uprights framing the cast bezel over fish scale quadrants, the 8.5" signed painted Roman dial with matching fancy spade hands, the gut (now wire) twin fusee movement with shouldered and footed plates united by five knopped pillars, signed within a formal border, the anchor escapement with engraved adjustable pendulum rod terminating in a large decorated bob, with rack striking on a bell, ticking, repeating and striking, together with a crank key, 41cms (16ins) high.FootnotesThomas Pace was a member of the Pace dynasty of horologists who began working in the second quarter of the 18th century and who continued working for over a century. There are two Thomas Paces recorded; Thomas Pace Snr. (1753-1819) and his son, Thomas Pace Jnr. (1777-1829). Both made bracket clocks, with Pace Snr. also making longcase clocks, while Pace Jnr. also pursued watchmaking and silversmithing in addition to clocks. The Pace family collection of clocks was sold in these rooms 15 July 2020. For further history, see Pace, D. (2013) 'The Pace family of Quaker clockmakers', Antiquarian Horology, Volume 34 (1), pgs. 60-71 (Accessed: 27 April 2022).