Clocktime: Samuel Knibb Cupola Clock c1675, 01 Samuel Knibb

Описание: Samuel Knibb – Ebony gilt-brass and silver Dutch striking table clock with cupola, case design attributed to John Webb.

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Made in about 1665, this Samuel Knibb Cupola clock was produced by yet another famous London clockmaker of a few outstandingly beautifully and interesting clocks, but about whom we know very little. Brian Loomes states that Samuel Knibb was baptised on the 16th of December 1625. The son of John Knibb, a Yeoman of Clayton in Oxfordshire, who was also the uncle of John Knibb and Joseph Knibb, who were obviously cousins to Samuel. Samuel started working in Newport Pagnell in about 1655, but was working in Westminster by 1662. Nobody's been able to find where Samuel was apprenticed, but the design and style of his five known clocks suggests that he was associated with Ahasuerus Fromanteel. All these clocks signed by Samuel are of the highest quality. He was in partnership in 1664 with Henry Sutton making a calculating machine designed by Sir Samuel Morland for trigonometric ratios. Samuel was admitted to the Clockmakers Company in London by redemption and paying a fine in 1663. He then started taking apprentices of his own. Sadly, Samuel died in about 1670. Probably yet another late plague victim.