Longcase clock with calendar, Clockmaker: Joseph Knibb, ca. 1680–85

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Longcase clock with calendar, Clockmaker: Joseph Knibb (British, 1640–1711), ca. 1680–85, British, London, Case: walnut and oak veneered with walnut; Dial: gilded and silvered brass; Movement: brass and steel, Overall: 78 1/4 × 16 3/8 × 9 1/4 in. ( × × cm), Horology, Clockmaker: Joseph Knibb (British, 1640–1711), Joseph Knibb was an outstanding clockmaker in London in the generation that included such illustrious names as Fromanteel and Thomas Tompion. The familiar longcase, or grandfather, clock exemplified here was developed in England in the latter part of the seventeenth century in response to improvements in the technology of the pendulum

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