£800
A brass lantern clock by Roger Moore, Ipswich, circa 1685, surmouted by a strapped bell, five finials and foliate frets over tapering Doric columns to ball feet, the Roman chapter ring framing the florally engraved centre signed 'Roger Moore de Ipswich fecit' below XII, 38cm high.
This clock is illustrated in Suffolk Clocks & Clockmakers, A L Haggar and L F Miller, 1974, Figs. 10 and 10A.
Little is known of Roger Moore, the earliest of several generations of clockmakers in this family. He was married to Elizabeth Page in Ipswich in 1687. Their second son, Thomas, born in 1690, became the most famous of the Ipswich clockmakers. Roger Moore died in 1727.
Provenance: from the Old Rectory, Lillington, Nr. Sherborne
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