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Preisdatenbank abonnierenA George III mahogany serpentine chest, c.1770, with brushing slide, four long drawers and cast brass handles, blind fret angles, on bracket feet,106cm wide56cm deep91cm highCondition report: Repolished, with replacement handles and new drawer runners. Evidence of some timber shrinkage in the top back corners and slight cracking in the veneers. Feet are sound.
A George I walnut dome top bureau cabinet, c.1710, with arched cornice, candle slide and mirrored door to the top half, enclosing a shelved interior with pigeonholes and small drawers, the base with a fitted interior enclosed by a fall and four long drawers, brass handles, on bracket feet,71cm wide52cm deep206cm highCondition report: Evidence of movement to the veneers on the lower right hand corner of the fall, later cast brass handles and evidence of a missing finial to the cornice.Evidence of movement to the veneers on the lower right hand corner of the fall, later cast brass handles and evidence of a missing finial to the cornice.Plate does not appear original.Splits and losses.Some areas of repair. Knocks and scratches.Evidence of treated woodworm. Repair/alteration to feet. Brassware replaced. Appears to have had relatively recent professional attention. General wear and repair throughout.
A George III mahogany chest on chest,the upper section with a moulded pediment over two short and three long drawers, the base with three further drawers, all with brass swan neck handles and on bracket feet,112cm wide48cm deep188cm highCondition report: Scratches, knocks and losses, particularly to one area of veneer. One foot broken and repaired.General wear throughout.Please view additional images.
A George III mahogany linen press,by Gillows of Lancaster, the two panelled doors enclosing five slides over two short and two long drawers, on splayed bracket feet, stamped 'Gillows Lancaster' to one short drawer,127cm wide67cm deep208cm highCondition report: Minor wear and tear.Please view additional images.
An ormolu mounted tulipwood(?) bracket clock/timepiece on bracket,19th century, the dial inscribed 'Payne 163 New Bond Street London' and with individual white porcelain numerals and a single fusee movement, the door with dragon mount, on a matching wall bracket with presentation inscription: 'To The Rev. John Garbett A.M. Vicar of Harborne, Hon'y Canon of Worcester and Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Manchester, lately Rector of St Georges, Birmingham and Rural Dean, From the Clergy of Birmingham 1858', the case with cherub surmount,55cm highCondition report: Tarnishing to original gilding in many places. Clock ticks. Veneer/carcass split in places, particularly on sides.
Thwaites and Reed, a falling-ball globe clock: the silvered chapter ring with black Roman numerals set within an etched brass globe which falls from a gilded brass bracket suspended from a mahogany backboard, the bracket signed Thwaites & Reed, No 156, with a plaque to the base signed George Hall 1972, height 65cm.
A. Cockburn, Haddington, an unusual Scottish bracket clock with windmill automata: the eight-day duration timepiece single-fusee movement with 'A' shaped plates and having an anchor escapement, with a subsidiary alarm train sounding on a bell, the painted break-arch dial having black Roman hour numerals, decorative fruit and floral corner spandrels and with further floral decoration within the arch, the centre showing a windmill within a field with sails turning as the movement runs, with brass hands and an alarm setting disc to the centre, signed for the maker A. Cockburn, Haddington, Scotland, the mahogany break-arch case having quarter-round corner moulding, brass inlaid decoration to the base and brass fishscale fretwork to the sides with cast-brass carrying handles above, on cast-brass lion's-paw feet, the wall bracket in the form of a cast-brass winged bird, height 34cm clock, 54cm inc. bracket.*Biography Adam Cockburn is recorded working at Haddington, East Lothian, circa 1810 and was also known as a minor poet. He emigrated to Canada in 1843. *Notes Reference Donald Whyte Clockmakers & Watchmakers of Scotland, Pub. Mayfield Books 2005. An oak longcase clock with painted dial is illustrated on page 74, fig. 71.
Shapland, Holborn a mahogany bracket clock: the eight-day duration, double fusee movement having shaped shoulders to the plates and striking the hours on a bell, the round convex dial painted with black Roman numerals and signed Shapland, Holborn, London, with blued steel decorative moon hands, the dome-topped mahogany case with boxwood stringing to the front and standing on cast-brass ball feet, height 42cm.*Biography Charles Shapland is recorded as working in High Holborn, London in the 19th Century.
William Frodsham, London a Georgian bell-top bracket clock: the eight-day duration five-pillar movement having a verge escapement and striking the hours on a bell, the backplate with engraved oriental decoration, the seven-inch break-arch brass dial having a raised silvered chapter ring engraved with black Roman numerals and Arabic five-minute outer numerals, the matted centre with a date aperture and inset silvered cartouche engraved with the maker's name William Frodsham, Red Lion Sq., London, with cast c-scroll spandrels to the four corners and decorative blued-steel hands, with a strike/silent dial within the arch, the walnut bell-top case with curved canted corners, brass fishscale frets to both the sides and front, and with a brass carrying handle to the top, height 45cm (handle down).*Biography William Frodsham, born 1728, was the founder of this famous family of clockmakers and was made an honorary Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers in 1781 before opening his own retail premises at 12, Kingsgate Street, Red Lion Square, London. He was an important maker who may well have acted as a journeyman for Justin Vuilliamy and was taught the art of jewelling by his friend the chronometer maker Thomas Earnshaw. This caused a problem for Frodsham when he was asked by the Board of Longitude to give evidence regarding a reward for Earnshaw following the latter's claim to have improved the detached escapement. William Frodsham died in 1807 having outlived his son, the clockmaker William the younger born 1755, by 18 months and with whom he formed the partnership William Frodsham & Son in 1779.
William Threlkeld, London a Georgian quarter-repeating bracket clock: the eight-day duration, five-pillar single-fusee timepiece movement having a verge escapement, a fully engraved backplate of floral and c-scroll decoration and with pull-repeat repeating the last hour and quarter-hour on two bells, with an engraved apron to the pallet arbor and engraved 'up and down' regulation lever, the break-arch brass dial having a raised silvered chapter ring engraved with black Roman numerals, Arabic five-minute outer numerals and fleur-de-lys half-hour markings, the matted centre with an engraved 'false-pendulum' aperture with decorative blued steel hands and an applied brass plate engraved with the maker's name Wm. Threlkeld, London, the corners with cast-brass female-head spandrels and 'up and down' regulation dial to the arch, the ebonised bell-top case having glazed panels to the sides, fretwork to the front corners, a cast-brass handle to the top and standing on ebonised pad feet, height 40cms (handle down) 43cms (handle up). * Biography William Threlkeld, born in Brancepeth, County Durham, is recorded as working in the Strand, London from before 1701 until at least 1727. A fine seaweed marquetry longcase clock signed for Threlkeld is situated in the bathroom in the Sir John Soane's Museum, London, inventory XF92, within a purpose made niche as it has done from at least 1837. A watch signed for him was known to be in the James Arthur collection situated in New York University, at that point the largest collection of horological timekeepers in the Northern hemisphere, with the collection split in 1982 between the Smithsonian Museum and the museum of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors in Pennsylvania who have consequently taken on the full collection and where the watch is now on show.*Notes Reference. Baillie G.H. Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World Methuen & Co 1929.*Notes Reference Sir John Soane's Museum, London
Richard Lloyd, Bridgnorth a Georgian alarm wall clock on bracket: the thirty-hour duration timepiece movement having an anchor escapement with a subsidiary alarm sounding on a bell, the seven-inch brass break-arch dial engraved with black Roman numerals, decorative corners and signed within the arch in scroll engraving Richard Lloyd, Bridgnorth, with a single blued steel hand and alarm setting disc to the centre, complete with a later wall bracket, height 54cm inc. bracket.*Biography Richard Lloyd is recorded as working in Bridgnorth, Shropshire from circa 1789 until at least 1809 when he advertised in the December addition of the Shropshire Journal, 'Clockmakers wanted. Two or three journeymen in that above line. Good workmen will receive good wages and constant Employ, by Applying to Mr. Lloyd, Bridgnorth, and all travelling expenses paid.'*Notes Reference Douglas J. Elliott, Shropshire Clock and Watchmakers, Pub. Phillimore 1979.
Joseph Dudds, London a mid-18th Century walnut longcase clock: the eight-day duration, five-pillar movement striking the hours on a bell with the twelve-inch break-arch brass dial having a raised silvered chapter ring engraved with black Roman numerals and outer five-minute markings, the matted dial centre having a subsidiary seconds dial and date aperture with cast-brass corner spandrels and decorative blued steel hands, the arch having a round convex boss engraved with the maker's name Joseph Dudds, London with cast-brass dolphin spandrels to either side, the walnut case having a burr walnut veneer to the trunk door with castellated inlaid stringing, the hood having a break-arch top with a deep concave moulding, cast brass capitals to the fluted pillars, arched wood frets to the sides and with matching stringing inlaid to the trunk door, the base with a shaped and raised panel set to the front and standing on bracket feet, height 228cms.*Biography Joseph Dudds is recorded as working in London having been apprenticed to Richard Haughtin on the 15th of January 1723 for 7 years becoming free on the 6th of July 1730 when he was admitted as a Freeman of The Clockmakers' Company and is recorded as still working in 1770.*Notes Reference The Company of Clockmakers' Register of Apprentices 1631-1931, pub. Privately for the Clockmakers' Company 1931.
Thomas Oldmeadow, Lynn, a mahogany longcase: the eight-day duration movement striking the hours on a bell, the twelve-inch break-arch silvered dial engraved with black Roman hour numerals, Arabic five-minute outer numerals, a subsidiary seconds dial to the centre and engraved with the maker's name Thos. Oldmeadow, Lynn, with classical floral engraved decoration to the corners and arch and blued steel hands, with an engraved dial within the arch for strike/silent, the mahogany case having fluted quarter columns with brass stops and cast-brass capitals, with a shaped moulding to the door, the hood having fluted pillars with brass stops and cast-brass capitals and surmounted by a pagoda top with a wood sound fret to the front and three brass ball-and-spire finials, the base with a raised shaped panel, a double plinth and standing on bracket feet, height 234cm including finial. *Biography Thomas Oldmeadow is recorded as working in Lynn (Kings Lynn), Norfolk from circa 1784 until after 1798 holding three policies with the Royal Exchange Insurance. A number of longcase clocks are recorded, all with silvered dials as in this example. Both the case and dial show similarities with longcase clocks made by another Kings Lynn clockmaker James Saddleton. *Notes Reference Clifford & Yvonne Bird Norfolk & Norwich Clocks & Clockmakers Pub. Phillimore & Co Ltd 1996.
A mahogany moonphase longcase clock: the eight-day duration movement striking the hours on a bell, the thirteen-inch break-arch painted dial having black Roman hour numerals, a subsidiary seconds dial, date aperture, decorative gilded-brass hands, painted cottage scenes to the four corners and phases of the moon disc within the arch, the mahogany case with barley-twist columns to the trunk, a short door with inlaid decoration and crossbanding above and below, the hood having barley-twist pillars and whales-tooth cresting surmounted with brass finials, the base with further inlaid crossbanding and stringing and standing on bracket feet, height 230cm.
William Lancaster, Plymouth Dock a mahogany moonphase longcase clock: the eight-day duration movement striking the hours on a bell, the twelve-inch brass break-arch dial having a raised silvered chapter ring engraved with black Roman hour numerals and Arabic five-minute outer numerals, the centre having a subsidiary seconds dial, silvered date aperture and engraved with a scene depicting ships leaving a harbour and signed Willm. Lancaster, Plymo. Dock, with decorative blued steel hands, with cast-brass female-head spandrels to the four corners, the arch having a well-painted moonphase disc depicting a sailing boat within a rough sea, the moon appearing from behind two engraved brass discs engraved with further maritime scenes, with a silvered arch above showing both the moon phase dates and time and engraved with High Water at Plymo. Dock, the mahogany case having fluted canted corners to the trunk and a break-arch moulding to the door, the hood having full fluted columns with cast-brass capitals, all standing on bracket feet, height 210cm. *Biography William Lancaster is recorded as working in Queen Street, Plymouth Dock (now Devonport) having married Mary Pinhey at Stoke Damerel parish church in November 1771. Interestingly the watchmaker Richard Pinhey was both a witness to the marriage and to Lancaster's will dated Feb 1815 prior to his death in February 1820 in which he left an estate valued at under £800 including his workshop tools which he left to his son Thomas Lancaster. William Lancaster's name is to be found on many good quality clocks and watches and it is known he was supplied with movements by a number of top London makers including Thwaites. *Notes Reference Clive N. Ponsford Devon Clocks and Clockmakers Pub. David & Charles 1985.
An 18th Century oak dresser:, the shelved superstructure with a moulded cornice and shaped spandrels, the base with projecting rounded ends and a moulded edge, containing three frieze drawers on turned legs united by a pot board base, terminating in bracket feet, 160cm (5ft 3in) long, 193cm. (6ft 4in) high.
An early 18th Century walnut and cross and feather banded secretaire kneehole desk:, the burr figured top with a moulded edge, the hinged fall enclosing a fitted interior with four small drawers and pigeon holes, having a recessed enclosed cupboard below with shaped apron drawer, flanked by three short drawers to either side, on bracket feet, 84cm (2ft 9in) wide.
A George III mahogany bureau:, the sloping hinged fall enclosing a fitted interior with small drawers and pigeon holes about a central enclosed cupboard, flanked by upright reeded pilaster concealed compartments containing four long graduated drawers below and with a single brass carrying handle to the side, on bracket feet, 100cm (3ft 3 1/4in) wide.
A George III mahogany bookcase on chest:, the upper part with a moulded cornice, fitted with adjustable shelves enclosed by a pair of astragal glazed panel doors, the lower part having a moulded top, containing two short and three long drawers, on bracket feet, 100cm (3ft 3 1/2in) wide, 184.5cm (6ft 0 3/4in) high.
A 19th Century mahogany and marquetry linen press:, banded in satinwood bordered with ebonised lines, the upper part with a moulded cornice and frieze decorated with drapery swags centred by an urn, fitted with sliding trays enclosed by a pair of doors decorated with ribbon tied husk and garlands and neo-classical drapery hung urns within satinwood oval lines, having oak leaf spandrels, the lower part containing two short and two long drawers, on bracket feet, 141cm. (4ft 7 1/2in) wide.
A late 19th Century mahogany bookcase in the Georgian taste:, the upper part with a pierced fret swan neck broken pediment with carved flowerheads, moulded dentil cornice and fluted frieze, having adjustable shelves enclosed by a pair of astragal glazed panel doors, the lower part with a fluted frieze, enclosed by a pair of moulded panel doors on bracket feet, 143.5cm (4ft 8 1/2in) wide, 260cm (8ft 6 1/4in) high.
Victorian pale oak bracket clock of Gothic Revival design, the painted dial with Roman numerals, signed William Roskell and Co, number 2635, Liverpool, the three train fusee movement chiming on eight bells and striking on a gong, the case of architectural form with a lancet top and cluster side columns, 30ins high, together with a matching wall bracketMovement is original but not working, case quite tired and dirty, needs restoration as a whole
Late Victorian walnut bracket clock, the arched dial with Arabic numerals with a two train movement striking on gongs, together with an early 20th Century two train mantel clockWalnut clock - pendulum damaged / incomplete. Not currently running. Movement is dirty and work is required.Mantel clock - appears to be complete. It runs but stops.
Edwardian mahogany shell and line inlaid standing corner cupboard, the architectural top above a bar glazed door and panelled door on bracket feet together with an early 20th Century mahogany standing corner cabinet with a moulded and blind fretwork cornice above a bar glazed and panelled door on moulded supports
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