Clocktime: Selby Lowndes Tompion Grande Sonnerie Mantle Clock c1693, 02 The Case
Channel: Dr John C Taylor
Date: 23/04/2024

Thomas Tompion – The Selby Lowndes Tompion No. 217 full grande sonnerie and quarter-repeating ebony mantle clock.

Join Dr John C Taylor OBE from the Clocktime digital museum as he discusses the case of The Selby Lowndes Tompion, circa 1693.

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But it's so different from earlier Tompion clocks, which are much more subdued in some of the detail. It's likely that Daniel Marot designed the ornamentation for Tompion. Daniel Marot had been an official designer to Louis XIV and with the revocation of the Treaty of Nantes, many, many Huguenots fled from France over to England. And Daniel Marot then came to work, first of all in Holland, for William when he was Prince of Holland, and then when he was King of England, the joint King and Queen with Mary, his wife. The detail is still all classical, the finials, the capitals, the bases, the columns. It's still a miniature building in its own right and wonderful detail from Daniel Marot.