A Fine and Rare William and Mary Walnut Marquetry Longcase Clock with Bolt and Shutter Maintaining Power, signed Daniel Quare, London, circa 1690, Barley twist columns, rising hood, throat mouldings beneath hood, side viewing windows, trunk door with D-ended floral marquetry inlaid panels, 10-inch square brass dial with a silvered chapter ring signed, finely matted dial centre with scroll engraved date aperture, seconds dial, finely pierced blued steel hands, winged cherub spandrels, six pillar latched movement with an anchor escapement and inside countwheel striking on a bell, bolt and shutter maintaining power with pull cord, later seatboard, 214cm high see illustrations Purchased by the current vendor from John Carlton Smith Antique Clock Dealer at 17 Ryder Street, St James, London. Daniel Quare (1647-1724). He was admitted as a Brother of the Clockmakers' Company in 1671 and served as Master in 1708. He was one of the most celebrated clockmakers of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Examples of his work can be seen in major collections and museums around the world. 30.01.20 The case has good patina and good colour, hood with later pierced frets to the borders, hood with small chips to the throat moulding, veneers with cracks in parts, trunk door with small chips, marquetry panels with small crazing crack marks, both sides of the plinth with veneer lifting and some inlaid stringing is missing, silvered dial chapter ring, is slightly discoloured in parts, movement is clean and in going order, bottom left hand side movement pillar is bent and one small crack fracture, back cock screws are later, later seatboard, with pendulum and two brass cased weights.