Noble & Private Collections Including Property from Corby Castle, Cumbria, and Marco Voena’s London Pied-à-Terre

The Principal Contents of Corby Castle, Cumbria

A monumental Victorian gilt-mounted ebonised quarter chiming table clock, John Creed Jennens, London, circa 1875

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Live auction begins on:

November 19, 01:30 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

Bid

6,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

15¼-inch arched dial with matted centre and moon dial at XII, signed J C Jennens, London, above subsidiary dials for date, month, chime/silent, chime selection and an aneroid barometer with fahrenheit mercury thermometer, the massive three train fusee and chain movement with anchor escapement, chiming on a nest of ten bells and striking on a coiled gong, the backplate engraved with a basket of flowers and signed as the dial within an arcaded border, the case with concave-sided cresting and cone finials above masks and Corinthian-capped pillars, bold side handles, Classical frieze and scroll feet,

148cm. 58¼in. high

John Creed Jennens was born in Birmingham in 1821, the son of Charles Jennens, Brass Founder. Little is known of the early life of John Jennens but by the time of his marriage at St Philip's Church, Birmingham in July 1841, his occupation is Clock Maker. In 1853 he moved to London with his wife and young family and settled in Great Sutton Street, Clerkenwell where, in the 1861 census, he is a clock manufacturer employing six men. The business was clearly successful as John's son John Sidney Jennens joined the business. By 1871 the family had moved to Tottenham and the clockmaking business was employing ten men and eight boys. John Creed Jennens died in 1883 and the business was continued by his son until circa 1915.

J C Jennens and Son are particularly known for their high quality Victorian quarter chiming bracket and longcase clocks. The present example must be one of the largest of its type ever produced.

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