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Los 444
Vinyl - Classical - Stravinsky, Ernest Ansermet Conducting L'Orchestre De La Suisse Romande ? The Fire Bird. Original UK Stereo ED1 issue, Black/silver 'grooved wideband? labels, "ORIGINAL RECORDING BY" at 11 o?clock, "Made in England" at bottom, "RECORDING FIRST PUBLISHED 1958?, and earliest Sleeve with Fully laminated, 'Half-moon' flipbacks (aka scalloped), Blue border on back, Triangular "DECCA STEREOPHONIC" logo on front and on back, Thin spine with no text on it, "Printed in England." on bottom flipback, Dated "MC 58.7" on bottom flipback (July 1958), Sleeve notes in English on back (1958, Decca Records, SXL 2017). Sleeve VG+ / Ex Vinyl EX+ appearing unplayed. Original inner sleeve
Los 445
Vinyl - Classical - Rimsky-Korsakov, Ansermet, L'Orchestre De La Suisse Romande ? Music Of Rimsky-Korsakov. (1959, Decca Records, SXL 2113). Original UK Stereo ED1 issue, Black/silver 'grooved wideband? labels, "ORIGINAL RECORDING BY" at 11 o?clock. Sleeve Ex, Vinyl EX+ appearing unplayed, with original inner sleeve
Los 217
An early 19th century bronzed brass clock of classical form with twin handled urn finial, laurel wreath mounts and ouroboros bezel, the dial signed 'Berthoud Frères, Paris', raised on four block feet. 37cm high.Berthoud Frères active in Paris from 1813 is recorded 'Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World', Complete 21st Century Edition by Brian Loomes, 2006. Condition report: Some wear to metal body and decorations with minor blemishes and some small scracthes to glass clockface. Very slight dent underneath, not visable while clock is standing.
Los 273
Of Scottish Horological and Prince Regent interest. An oval silver-mounted oak snuff box bearing the legend "Made from the celebrated Wallace's tree in the Torwood Stirlingshire...Presented by John Russell watchmaker to Prince Regent to Peter Crawford Bruce Esq. 6.5 cm long x 5.2 cm wide x 2.9 cm deepFootnote: John Russell (Scottish 1745-1818), was recognised as an ingenious clock and watchmaker and as such was given the Royal Warrant.Condition report: Some minor dinks and knocks of age and usage.
Los 219
A late 19th/early 20th -century Japy Freres three-piece gilt brass clock garniture. The architectural "Temple" cased 8-day clock and accompanying two handled urns with sage coloured bisque porcelain panels and bodies with applied classical "Flaxman" style decoration The movement chiming the hours on a coil gong. 20 cm wide x 27 cm high x 11.5 cm deep ( the clock)Condition report: The pendulum is present along with a key that fitsThe movement's going and chiming train both wind freelyThe movement runs but stops after a short while.One of the urns has a slight dent in the rim of the mouth.
Los 218
A Jaeger-Le-Coultre gilt brass Atmos mantel clock, on a gilt brass base, with glass panels on four sides to reveal an open skeleton movement numbered 48663, the white enamel face having a gilt baton dial with Arabic quarter markers, 23.5 cm high x 20.5 cm.Condition report: I have set up the clock and it seems to be running happily, this is of course no guarantee of accuracy or reliability but does show the mechanism is capable of running.
Los 123
Must de Cartier, a quartz travel clock, the square lacquered brass case with blue enamelled batons above and below signed to verso 'Cartier Paris Quartz Made in France 355105836', a white square dial signed 'Cartier Paris', framed by blue enamelled Roman numerals, with a folding stand, accompanied by Cartier red suede pouch. H.6cm
Los 110
ATTRIBUÉE POUR LES BRONZES à LOUIS-ISIDORE CHOISELAT, DIT CHOISELAT-GALLIEN (1784-1853), RARE PENDULE DE CHEMINÉE, "PAUL ET VIRGINIE AUX JEUNES PORTEURS NOIRS", ÉPOQUE CONSULAT, VERS 1801-1803en bronze finement ciselé, patiné noir, vert antique et doré. Le cadran circulaire émaillé blanc, réalisé par l'émailleur-peintre François-Marie Dubuisson, indique les heures en chiffres romains et les minutes. Le mouvement ; à sonnerie au passage des heures et de la demie sur timbre, échappement à petite ancre ordinaire, suspension à fil de soie ; souligné de pampres de vigne, fixée à un palanquin porté sur les épaules de deux jeunes noirs, aux yeux émaillés, portant des anneaux d'oreilles et vêtus de pagnes de plumes. A l'amortissement, Paul et Virginie, du roman de Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, assis sur un tabouret, un chien posant ses pattes avant sur la cuisse droite du jeune homme. Base quadrangulaire à côtés arrondis agrémentée, en façade, de motifs en applique figurant deux limoniers agrémentés de pampres qui encadrent une scène en léger relief représentant le naufrage du Saint-Géran, l'un des épisodes marquants du roman de Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. Pieds patins à frises de canaux.(Accidents et usures d'usage).A rare chimney clock "Paul and Virginia withyoung black bearers" attributed bronze to Louis-Isidore Choiselat, known as Choiselat-Gallien, Consulate period, circa 1801-1803.46 X 31 X12,5 CM • 18 1/8 X 12 3/16 X 4 15/16 IN.
Los 126
ATTRIBUÉE À THÉODORE LEROY (1788-1839), HORLOGER DU ROI, PENDULE PORTIQUE AUX CHINOIS, ÉPOQUE RESTAURATIONen bronze doré au mercure. Le portique en pagode stylisée à colonnade reliée par une balustrade ajourée. Il repose sur un tertre rocailleux feuillagé et fleuri qui accueille un couple, la femme jouant de la mandoline, l'homme tenant une colombe. Il retient un cadran rond polylobé à chiffres romains pour les heures dans des index fleuris avec un mouvement à sonnerie, avec échappement à ancre et suspension à lames dite "valette". Il est surmonté d'un toit courbe orné de clochettes et surélevé d'un temple à colonnade circulaire à étages, balustrades, agrémenté d'une cloche et de clochettes. Socle à balustrade ajourée d'abeilles et serpents, pieds antérieurs aux dragons ailés. (Piqûres, usures, petits accidents et manques et restaurations notament la dorure vernis postérieurement ; manque les aiguilles ; deux éléments détachés)Chinese portico clock attributed to Théodore Leroy (1788-1839), Restoration period.83 X 25 X 14,5 CM • 32 11/16 X 9 13/16 X 5 11/16 IN.
Los 115
PENDULE, AU COURONNEMENT DE L'AMOUR, PAR PIERRE-FRANÇOIS FEUCHERE (1737-1823), VERS 1820en marbre jaune de Sienne et bronze à patine brune. Le cadran à guillochures de lignes onduleuses, à chiffres romains pour les heures et les minutes à index bâton, monogrammé TN, s'insère dans une borne cintrée en partie haute ornée de Psyché couronnant Cupidon. Ils reposent sur une base et un contre-socle rectangulaires ornés d'une frise de palmes en doucine, pieds griffes ailés. Le mouvement à échappement à petite ancre ordinaire, suspension fil de soie, également monogrammé TN. On y joint une paire de candélabres à six feux en volute feuillagée en enroulement reposant sur une colonne renflée et corollée d'une frise de feuilles d'acanthe en partie basse. Piètement tripode à griffes et palmes. Base triangulaire à côtés incurvés à frise de rais-de-cÅ“urs stylisés, XIXe siècle(Petits accidents, manques et usures d'usage);A clock with crowning of love, by Pierre-François Feuchere, circa 1820, we add a pair of candélabra 19th centuryPour la pendule: 68,5 X 45 X 22 CM • 27 X 17 3/4 X 8 11/16 IN.Pour les candélabres, HAUT. 59 CM • 23 1/4 IN. - DIAM. 28 CM • 11 IN.
Los 104
A very fine and rare second quarter of the 19th century mahogany floorstanding regulator with mercury pendulum regulatorJohn Walker, LondonThe arch-top case with full-length glazed door opening to reveal the baize-lined dust moulding, over a base with recessed panel and moulded apron, the 11 inch one-piece signed silvered dial with outer Arabic minute track enclosing large subsidiaries for running seconds (with Observatory Marks) and Roman hours, with original blued steel hands, all framed by an angled sight ring and set above a foliate carving of acanthus leaves and tendrils, the interior of the case veneered and set with a silvered beat scale reading 3-0-3, the base with an aperture to allow for the full descent of the small brass weight; the exceptional movement fixed to the seatboard with three impressive knurled securing bolts, the very substantial plates united by five heavy turned pillars screwed front and back, Harrison's maintaining power, five- and six-spoke wheelwork, high count pinions and deadbeat escapement with sapphire pallets, to a mercury jar pendulum suspended from a bracket on the backboard, the small brass weight let off on the left hand side on a six-spoke pulley. Running. Together with a case key and a crank winding key. 182cms (71 1/2ins) highFootnotes:This regulator is one of only two known examples by John Walker of London. Famed around the world for the supply of clocks to the Railways and beyond, the company still operate as clock and watchmakers today in South Molton Street, London.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TPTP Lot will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Los 59
An exceptionally fine and rare mid 20th century gilt brass-mounted burr walnut table chronometer with original numbered safety winding keyCharles Frodsham, Clockmaker to H.M. the King, London, 2473. The case modelled on the original 'Sympathetique' clock by Abraham Louis Breguet created in 1814 and in now the British Royal Collection, with curved handle over an oval inspection panel framed by a star-cast running border, each corner set with a three-quarter burr wood column, on a plinth base with heavy gilt brass plate underneath carrying the four levelling screw feet, both sides and doors framed in a cast gilt brass border.The 5.25 inch by 4.25 inch one-piece silvered dial with engraved minute track enclosing the Roman numerals, large subsidiary seconds dial at XII and the power reserve dial at VI, (marked 0-8 with instruction to wind at seven days), with good original blued steel hands throughout. The dial secured to the front plate of the movement via three heavy gilt dial feet screwed from the rear.The movement with thick plates united by four heavy pillars screwed front and back, and further mounted on a substantial brass baseplate with three heavy L-shaped brackets, the single chain fusee with Harrison's maintaining power to an Earnshaw type spring detent escapement mounted on a large platform, with heavy cut and compensated bi-metallic balance on a freesprung blued steel helical spring with diamond endstone, the contrate wheel arbor in a double-screwed jewelled chaton, the backplate with engine turned finish and signed in a polished reserve 'Chas Frodsham, 27 South Molton St., London, 2473'. Together with the original safety winding key, numbered 2473 and with the name 'V. KENNETT'. 31cmns (12ins) to the top of the raised handle.Footnotes:Provenance:Single family ownership for approximately the last 80 years.To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time a Frodsham/'Breguet' clock has been offered for sale by auction. The high class firm of Charles Frodsham Ltd. created this clock in 1949 as part of their small series of 'reproduction' clocks - other table clocks in the series included 'The Cumming' priced at £49 with plain dial, £53 with a mounted dial; 'The Tompion' priced at £30-32 depending on the mounts, and 'The Ellicott' £28-32 as well as others (for a full list see Mercer, pages 178-182. At £290, The Breguet was by far and away the most expensive of the table clocks. It was the pinnacle of the Frodsham range and perhaps represents more an homage from one great horology house to another, rather than a simple reproduction. With the pick of Breguet's output to chose from, Frodshams opted for Breguet's sympathetique number 666, originally sold to The Prince Regent (later George IV) in 1814 for the princely sum of 11,500 francs, this clock is still in the Royal Collection today. The movement for the clock was supplied before the Second World War by Mercers, and was only cased up by them once trade had returned to some normalcy in 1949. Literature:Daniels, G. (1975) The Art of Breguet. London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, Colour plate II and plates 141 a-e for image of the original Sympathetique. Mercer, T. (1981) The Frodshams The Story of a Family Chronometer Makers. Kent: The Antiquarian Horological Society, plate 51 for a copy of the 1949 catalogue entry alongside other much cheaper clocks in the same series. We are grateful to Richard Stenning of Charles Frodsham Ltd. for his help in researching this lot.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Los 54
A fine early 19th century rosewood table clockVulliamy, London, No. 1435The rectangular case surmounted with a stepped caddy top over a concave moulded pediment and rectangular glazed side panels on a plinth base with block feet, with solid rear door, the 6.75 inch silvered Roman dial with outer minute track and modern blued steel Breguet style hands, framed by a moulded brass bezel set into the panelled front door. When the front door is opened, the signature and number are revealed on the dial below VI, while a regulation arbor is visible above XII with engraved instructions 'turn to the left to go slower/to the right to go faster' and a strike/silent lever at IIII. The signed and numbered twin gut (now wire) fusee movement with substantial plates united by five tapering 'cannon barrel' pillars, with half deadbeat escapement, striking the hours on a bell, (the hammer arbor and adjustable vane both cocked on the backplante), the pendulum with an ebony facetted rod terminating in a heavy numbered bob, secured in transit by a substantial hinged locking block. Together with two case keys and two associated winding keys. Running and striking. 43cms (16 1/2ins) high (6)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: YY Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the EU, see clause 13.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Los 23
An impressive late 19th century quarter chiming ebonised table clock with deadbeat escapement and Cambridge chimeThomas Russell & Son, Liverpool and LondonSurmounted by five finials flanking an arched caddy top, the sides inset with cast brass sound frets on a plinth base with applied floral mount on scroll feet, the eight inch rectangular dial set within a sight ring, three subsidiary dials for rise-and-fall regulation, chime/silent and chime on eight bells/Cambridge chimes, over a signed Roman and Arabic chapter ring, the massive movement united by six pillars, with deadbeat escapement rack striking the hours on a coiled steel gong and chiming the quarters on a run of eight bells and hammers. Running. Chime and strike in need of attention. 74cms (2ft. 5ins.0) high.Footnotes:Provenance:Purchased Sotheby's Chester, 2 October 1982, £947.50. Overhauled October 1983 and April 1993.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Los 80
A late 17th century marquetry longcase clock with ten inch dial and bolt-and-shutter maintaining powerWilliam Clement, Londini fecitThe flat top over a blind fret cut cornice over spirally twisted columns, convex throat moulding and 42 inch long door inlaid with three shaped panels of bird and flower inlay framing the circular lenticle, on a matching base (now partly built up). With spoon lock to the throat.The 10-inch square brass dial with winged cherubs head spandrels and foliate engraving framing the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring, finely matted centre with slender subsidiary seconds ring and decorated date aperture. Secured to the movement by four latched dial feet.The rectangular movement plates united by six knopped and ringed pillars latched to the frontplate, with capped barrels, the going train with bolt-and-shutter maintaining power to the anchor escapement, the strike with outside countwheel, striking on the large bell. The backplate further set with a brass bracket which secures to a conforming bracket on the case backboard via a butterfly nut. Ticking and striking. Together with the door key and a crank winding key. 2.01m (6ft 7ins) high.Footnotes:Provenance:The estate of John Graveson, (1946-2021), son of Professor Ronald H Graveson, CBE (1911-1991). Professor Graveson was one of the most highly respected collectors of Fine English clocks in the 1960s and 70s. Purchased Sotheby's Important Clocks, English Pottery, Rugs and Carpets, Tapestries and Fine English Furniture, Thursday 30th January 1964, lot 80. 'A late 17th century marquetry longcase clock by Wim. Clement, Londini fecit...'.A note in the margin gives the purchase price of £360 - in the same sale a walnut longcase by Christopher Gould sold for £140 and a walnut longcase by Joseph Windmills realised £180. A copy of the catalogue is included with this lot. Additional paperwork includes a receipt for a replacement pendulum suspension from Camerer Cuss & Co, 9-3-1964 for £17-6d. Another for various minor jobs from A. & H. Rowley Parkes & Co. 30-9-1965 for £47-10d, and a handwritten letter from Daniel Parkes, detailing work done to the retaining bracket dated 8th October 1965. The clock has remained in the Graveson family for the last 57 years.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TPTP Lot will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Los 34
An early 19th century French ormolu and black onyx mantel clockVaillant a ParisThe case depicting Venus and Cupid with outstretched arms in a swan led chariot decorated with winged griffins motifs on ball and claw and webbed feet on a substantial plinth decorated with a scene depicting the river gods, on brass bun feet, the 4 inch signed white enamel Roman and Arabic dial with brushed brass spear hands, the circular silk suspension movement with outside countwheel with the ability to strike the hours and half hours (currently not functioning) on a bell, ticking but not currently striking, together with a silk suspension pendulum and an associated winding key. 40cms (15 1/2ins) high (3)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Los 40
A fine and rare mid 18th century Czech ormolu quarter striking and repeating travel clock with calendarJoseph Weishaupt Carlsbaad N486The waisted case with cast front of seashells flanking a basket of fruit over C-scrolls and shells, terminating in scroll supports, the sides with pierced lattice sound frets and solid rear cover, the 2.25 inch enamel dial with outer Arabic five minutes enclosing the date ring and Roman hours, a strike/silent lever below VI; the signed and numbered movement with shaped plates to follow the outline of the case united by four pillars and with scroll engraved border, the going train with chain fusee to a verge escapement with monometallic three-arm sprung balance under a pierced and engraved bridge cock, both strike trains spring driven and sounding the quarters on two hammers, and the hours on a third hammer, all on a single bell mounted horizontally below. 15cms (6ins) highThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Los 26
A rare 19th century Japanese weight driven wall clock with alarm, now in a later hooded caseThe clock body surmounted by a straight-sided bell with thickened rim over four finials and freestanding turned brass pillars set between top and bottom plates, the side and rear doors connected by pairs of hinges and removable as one joined unit, all three pieces engraved with an elaborate floral sprig, now set on a wooden wall bracket with glazed hood, the weight driven movement with verge escapement, the balance arbor and pallets suspended on silk, the flat brass balance with regulation effected by a sliding lead weight mounted on to one of the arms, the countwheel strike and alarm sounding on the bell above, the dial with 24 movable hour and half-hour markers, (12 silvered, 12 blued steel to denote day and night) rotating against a fixed pierced steel hand the centre further set with a smaller alarm-setting hand within a curved arc, over a pair of calendar apertures, all framed by a series of flowers and foliage. The clock 24cms (9.5ins) high. The bracket 51cms (20ins) high. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Los 19
A fine and rare late 19th century French gorge cased bell-striking carriage clock with three subsidiary dials and running secondsChles. Oudin, Palais Royal 52, ParisThe ribbed handle over bevelled panels on a moulded base, the signed white enamel Roman dial with blued steel Breguet style hands with a subsidiary running seconds dial at XII and three further subsidiary dials for the days of the week (in French), alarm and date, the twin train movement with lever platform escapement with bimetallic compensated balance striking the hours and half hours on a bell. Ticking, striking and repeating. 16.6cms (6ins) high (1)Footnotes:Charles Oudin was apprenticed with Abraham-Louis Breguet and became the official clockmaker to the Tsar of Russia.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Los 52
A very rare early 19th century brass-inlaid ebonised table clock of small sizeJames Murray, Royal Exchange, LondonThe pagoda top case surmounted by a pineapple finial over four shaped pieces, glazed rectangular side panels within brass frames on a brass-banded plinth on ball feet, the 3.5 inch signed circular white enamel Roman dial with minute track and blued steel hands set within a highly elaborate pierced foliate mask, the signed twin chain fusee movement with tapering pillars and anchor escapement, rack striking the hours on a bell. Ticking and striking, together with a brass heart shape winding key. 29cms (11ins) high (2)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Los 70
A very fine and rare 17th century longcase clock movement with verge escapement, now contained in a bespoke architectural ebony caseEdward East, London. The movement circa 1665-70, the case possibly made by Percy Dawson in the 1920s?The 8.25 inch square brass dial with single line border framing the engraved spandrels depicting split pomegranates, gourds, and grapes around a narrow silvered chapter ring, the minute band with Arabic five-minute markers within the band, short Roman hour markers and a narrow quarter-hour track, the finely matted centre with small date aperture above VI, blued steel hands. Signed along the lower edge 'Edwardus East, Londini' Four latched dial feet to the movement.The weight driven movement with tall rectangular plates with chamfered corners united by five knopped and ringed pillars (all latched), an L-shaped retaining bracket screwed to the upper right hand corner. The high barrels with slightly rounded front ends, the going train terminating in a verge escapement, with short pendulum and pear-shaped bob; the strike train with small countwheel and vertical hammer both mounted high on the backplate, striking on the horizontal bell above.Now contained in a 1920s (?) expertly made architectural case, the rising hood with shaped wooden catch to the backboard, triangular pediment supported on turned quarter and three-quarter columns with lacquered brass Corinthian capitals and bases, the 45 inch long trunk door with three raised panels and lock within a moulded edge, the sides with single moulded panel running the length of the sides to a plain base on bun feet. 1.92m (6ft 4ins) high. Footnotes:Provenance:The estate of John Graveson, (1946-2021), son of Professor Ronald H Graveson, CBE (1911-1991). Professor Graveson was one of the most highly respected collectors of Fine English clocks in the 1960s and 70s. Purchased from one of the great post-war clock dealers, Charles Thornton in 1961. Literature:Dawson, G.P., Drover, C.B., Parkes, D.W. (1982) Early English Clocks. Woodbridge: ACC, plate 156.Original paperwork from Thornton relating to the 20th century history of the clock are included with this lot. The first, dated 25th November 1960, reads:'Nice to hear from you again & do admit to a mistake when I wrote to you. I had the figure of £1250 on my mind, which I had refused to take for the East, as it would have left the country. The price I quoted to you was £1200 & of course I will stand up to this if you are interested. Please don't hold me to this price after the year end for quite frankly I shall be asking much more; for this is an even rarer clock that I think you realize....' Another dated 16th January 1961 states:'Thank you very much for your letter & enclosed cheque for the Edward East for which I have pleasure in sending receipt. You have bought yourself a very rare & fine clock. Now you have bought it & the deal is settled I can tell you that some weeks ago the trade in USA offered me £1250 cash for same - this I refused and since then they increased their offer which I also declined. I was determined that I was going to sell it to stay in this country that is why it gives me great pleasure to sell to you at less money. I am not saying that I would have done this thirty five or forty years ago when I was hard up and struggling along but thank goodness it came in to my possession when it did so that I was able to do this. This clock was on show at the South Kensington Science Museum for over six months as the only example of Edward East with bob pendulum & bolt & shutter that was known...'The receipt dated 16th January 1961 describes the clock as follows:'To Fine small long case clock by Edward East in ebonised case, eight day movement with strike, bolt & shutter, date aperture, bob pendulum, original hands, movement original and shown & (sic) the South Kensington Science Museum, slight restoration to ebonised case.........£1200. ' It is now thought that the case rather than being 'slightly restored' was made to order, probably in the 1920s from the great case maker Percy Dawson. It is a testament to Dawson's skill and sensitivity as a case maker that the clock has been described as completely original by others since then. Dawson later went on to co-author the standard work on early English clocks, and illustrated this movement in 'Early English Clocks', plate 156. ExhibitedThe Science Museum, London 'British Clockmaker's Heritage Exhibition May 23rd to September 14th, 1952, exhibit number 76'LONG-CASE MOVEMENT by EDWARD EAST, LONDON, C 1665-1670. Eight day. Weight driven with a verge escapement and short bob pendulum. It has Dutch striking mechanism with small locking-plate high up on the backplate, and bolt-and-shutter maintaining power. The dial which is 8 5/8in. square has a narrow chapter ring. The centre is matted and the corners engraved. The plates are shaped at the top. Lent by Chas. Thornton, Esq. ' A copy of the exhibition catalogue is included with this lot.A comparable longcase clock by East with verge escapement, vertical bell and 8.25 inch fruit-engraved dial was exhibited in these rooms at the exhibition 'Innovation and Collaboration' September 2018, exhibit number 33.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TPTP Lot will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Los 38
A late 18th century French ormolu and bronze mantel clock inset with glass jewelsGille Laine, a ParisThe case surmounted by a swagged lidded urn over the circular drum decorated with laurels mounted on top of a prowling lion on a jewelled plinth base decorated with plaque depicting putti on toupie feet, the 3 1/2 inch signed white enamel Roman and Arabic dial with fancy jewelled hands (the glass to the front door lacking), the later 19th century circular movement now fitted with a lever platform escapement mounted onto the backplate, striking the hours and half hours on a bell. Ticking and striking. Together with an associated double ended winding key. 39.5cms (15 1/2ins) high (2)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Los 78
An historically important early 19th century floor-standing mahogany regulator tested by Neville Maskelyne, the Astronomer Royal, at Greenwich Observatory May to August 1807.William Hardy, London, No.2. The Movement signed Raymond, London.The case6ft 2.5inches high and surmounted by a shallow arched cresting over a ripple-moulded cornice and large glazed side panels, the circular brass bezel flanked by canted front corners, over a similar trunk with long glazed door within a brass edge, on a panel base with applied moulding, all raised on a double apron.The dial 11 inch one-piece circular dial with outer minute track enclosing a large Arabic subsidiary seconds dial and curved Roman hour aperture, signed below the centre 'Willm. Hardy/ Invt. et Fecit/ London/ No.2'The movement The shouldered plates united by six heavy knopped pillars pinned through the frontplate, with Harrison's maintaining power to a four wheel train terminating in a deadbeat escapement (the 'scape wheel of five crossings, the others of four) and with eight leaf pinions throughout, the original mercury jar pendulum suspended from a heavy rectangular-section brass post running front to back across the top of the movement, with long steel crutch to a mercury jar pendulum reading against an adjustable engraved silvered beat scale ranging from 3.4-0-3.4 189.5cms (6ft 2.5ins) high.Footnotes:Provenance:A private European collection. Comparative literatue:Roberts, D. (2003) English Precision Pendulum Clocks. Atglen: Schiffer Publishing, Chapter 6 The Spring Pallet Escapements of Hardy and Reid.Roberts, D. (2003) Precision Pendulum Clocks, The Quest for Accurate Timekeeping. Atglen: Schiffer Publishing, Figs 6-12, 6-13.This historic regulator was the beginning of William Hardy's development of the spring pallet escapement. Using a movement supplied by Raymond, Hardy added his prototype spring pallet escapement to the backplate. Although the escapement has now been removed, all of the evidence exists to prove the original layout. The pendulum too is original - the slot and pin for the original escapement remain as testament to the remarkable escapement.The Precision Pendulum Clock in England from the later Years of the Eighteenth Century. Andrew King.During the eighteenth century there was a constant drive to improve the precision of pendulum clocks. Much effort was expended on the further development of temperature compensating pendulums by exploiting the different expansion rates of metals, notably brass or zinc in partnership with steel. However, it was the mercury pendulum which predominated. Mercury pendulums were never entirely ideal due to the slow reaction of a large mass of mercury in a container of either glass or steel. This was not improved upon until the next century, in 1891, when Sigmund Reifler (1847-1912) patented his invention of mercury contained within the pendulum rod itself where the reaction to the environment was far more sensitive.Developments in escapements were rather slow as well. Richard Townley (1629-1707) and Thomas Tompion (1639-1713) invented the dead beat escapement in 1675, further exploited by George Graham (1673-1751) and others. , the dead beat escapement becoming the predominant choice for regulators.Although there were always isolated attempts to design a variant it was from the middle years of the century that ideas moved towards gravity escapements. Thomas Mudge (1715-1794) invented his gravity escapement in the early 1760s, this seminal concept became the inspiration of other gravity and spring pallet escapements. Alexander Cumming (1732-1814) produced a more complex version of Mudge's design illustrated and described in his publication, The Elements of Clock and Watch Work (1766). Around the same time there was another advancement which had a profound influence.In 1760 the first successful marine timekeeper became a reality with John Harrison's (1693-1776) Watch,'H4' soon to be proven on two voyages to the West Indies. Harrison's life's work proving the practicality of a marine timekeeper within the confines of a large watch. His publication in 1767 of 'The Principles of Mr Harrison's Timekeeper' provided inspiration to others to take up the baton. Even if the publication was obtuse, there were certain enlightening fundamental factors within the concept for the initiated. The initiated included John Arnold (1736-1799) who developed his first marine timekeeper over the next four years. This was undoubtedly inspired by Harrison but redesigned into what became the basis of the modern marine chronometer. The heart of the instrument was the eponymous spring detent escapement controversially invented by Thomas Earnshaw (1749-1829) in 1781, but patented by Arnold in 1782. Although marine chronometers were not widely used for many years they were certainly very well known within the clock making community. Requiring skill in manufacture and equal skill in care and maintenance, the spring detent escapement became the success story in marine chronometry. The concept was not lost on clockmakers. The almost frictionless feature of the spring detent itself requiring no lubrication, an ideal worth pursuing. Clockmakers in both England and France became involved in experimenting with spring pallet and gravity escapements. William Hardy (d.1830) was certainly established in London by at least as early as 1800. His quest for improved precision timekeeping in pendulum clocks led to his experimenting with various designs before his invention of his spring pallet escapement which was first fitted to this regulator, supplied by Raymond, in July 1806. This clock was designed by Hardy who probably provided the cutters for the wheels and pinions for Raymond's use. Raymond's origins remain obscure, and he was only employed by Hardy for this one clock. Hardy subsequently employed the renowned Thomas Leyland to make all future regulators. It is quite clear in this instance that Hardy himself certainly made the cutters for the wheels and pinions for the current lot.With the new escapement fitted together with the newly made mercury pendulum, tests showed such promise over the following five months that Hardy wrote to George Gilpin (c1755-1810), secretary to the Board of Longitude, on the 8th January 1807, introducing himself and describing what he now believed to be a potentially superior timekeeper. He explained that over a three month trial period his regulator had a gaining rate of only four tenths of a second a day. He described to Gilpin how he had experimented with various designs but the latest, the spring pallet variant was showing the most promising results.Hardy, with a bold confidence, asked if his regulator could be submitted to the Commissioners of the Board of Longitude for their consideration, further commenting that he would be 'thankful' if they would advance his request to the Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne (1732-1811) to provide a more stringent trial at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. Four months later another letter from Hardy to George Gilpin made it clear that the Commissioners had indeed consulted Maskelyne and that a trial had been agreed to take place at the Observatory. Following a Board meeting, Maskelyne visited Hardy to see ... This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * TP* VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.TP Lot will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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A late 17th century brass winged Lantern ClockThomas Bradford, Londini fecitThe strapped bell over urn finials, heraldic frets, turned columns and ball feet, (doors and back panel now lacking, frets later), the 6.5 inch brass Roman chapter ring with double wheat-ear half-hour markers and single hand, signed 'Thos. Bradford Londini fecit' above a floral spray to the centre, the weight driven movement with knife-edge verge escapement and central short bob pendulum situated between the two trains, with countwheel strike on the bell. Together with a later wooden wall bracket (17.5cms) high. 39cms (15 ins) highFootnotes:Literature: Loomes, B. (2008) Lantern Clocks and their Makers. Mayfield: Mayfield Books, figure 9.54 with the caption 'Lantern clock with original centre pendulum (no wings) signed 'Tho Bradford Londini fecit'...'For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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A late 17th century ebony basket top table clock with twin subsidiaries Signed behind the mock pendulum apertureWilliam Webster LondonRepousse basket top with knopped bud handle over four unusual finials and an intricately moulded cornice, rectangular glazed side panels to a moulded plinth and brass button feet, both doors with applied repousse mounts, the 6.75 inch square brass dial with twin subsidiaries for strike/silent and rise-and-fall regulation in the upper corners, the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with meeting-arrowhead half-quarter marks, finely matted centre with ringed winding squares and decorated mock pendulum (revealing the signature) and date apertures, the twin gut fusee movement with verge escapement with rise and fall pendulum mounted on an engraved curved arm terminating in a rack and pinion, with lenticular bob, the strike train with internal rack sounding on the bell, with pull quarter repeat on three bells and hammers. Running, striking and repeating. Together with a door key (which operates both locks) and a later winding key. 40cms (16ins) high.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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A miniature olive-wood veneered striking table clockThe movement signed for Henricus Jones, Londini. Probably late 19th/early 20th century. The case with caddy top surmounted by a brass knopped handle and side mounts over a plain moulded cornice and rectangular glazed side panels on a stepped base with ebonised section on bun feet (the rear door glazed and veneered on all sides of the frame). The 4.75 inch square dial with engraved foliage to each corner, framing the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with narrow Arabic five-minute track interspersed with typical dots, around dotted trefoil half hour markers, finely matted centre with chamfered date aperture and blued steel hands. The twin gut fusee movement with thick plates united by three square-section pillars and two knopped and finned pillars, all pinned to the frontplate, the going train with knife edge verge escapement, the strike train with outside countwheel, signed in a lambrequin 'Henricus Jones Londini', with engraved border, and clicks with stopwork mounted on the backplate. Sold with two small case keys. 29cms (11ins) high (4)Footnotes:Literature: Dawson, G.P., Drover, C.B., Parkes, D.W. (1982) Early English Clocks. Woodbridge: ACC, plate 611 where it is dated to circa 1680 along with the comment that the cross-grain mouldings were modified to accommodate the use of olivewood.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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A rare early 18th century ebony table clockCharles Goode, LondonSurmounted by a bold 'Quare-style' double-S scroll handle on a caddy top over an intricately moulded cornice and two long glazed side panels to a moulded base and block feet, the front door with highly unusual ogee bolection-moulded frame. The rectangular dial measuring 7.75 ins x 7ins signed upper centre Charles Goode, LONDON over a strike/not strike lever framed by foliate and strapwork spandrels to the corners, the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with half-quarter marks and meeting-arrowhead half hour markers, the finely matted centre displaying the decorated mock pendulum aperture, conforming date aperture and ringed winding squares, with finely pierced original hands. The twin gut fusee movement (now wire) now converted to anchor escapement with internal rack strike on the bell, the plates united by five knopped and ringed pillars (the centre latched), the backplate boldly engraved with interlaced foliate scrolls centred by the repeat signature within a shaped foliate cartouche below a winged cherubs head. 43cms (17ins) highFootnotes:Another table clock by Goode with an ogee bolection-moulded door was sold Christies London, 'Magnificent Clocks', 15/9/2004, lot 21, with a quarter chiming movement, the hammer price was £30,000.Charles Goode was a watchmaker who was made a Free Brother in the Clockmaker's Company in September 1686. He did not sign the 1697 oath roll of allegiance for any City Company. He died in 1730. compare with others in DDP - the christies one was plates 580-583..For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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A mid 19th century French ormolu mounted white marble mantel clockRaingo Freres A Paris, case and movement numbered 1035The highly elaborate case surmounted by a floral urn and a large ribboned bow leading to flowing swagged garlands held by two bronze putti, on a stepped classical base with egg and dart moulding on beaded toupie feet. The 3 1/2 inch signed white enamel Roman and Arabic dial with gilt fancy hands, the circular movement with with outside countwheel striking the hours and half hours on a bell. Ticking and striking, together with a pendulum and an associated double ended winding key. 32cms (12 1/2ins) high (3)Footnotes:Property of a Gentleman.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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A fine and rare French brass grande sonnerie carriage clock with running seconds, days of the week, calendar and alarmThe 5 glass gorge case surmounted by a substantial rippled handle and 2 repeat buttons on plinth base, with grade sonnerie lever underneath, with options for grande sonnerie, silence and petite sonnerie, the white enamel Roman and Arabic dial with blued steel speared hands with running seconds dial at XII, over three subsidiary dials for days of the week (in French), alarm dial and calendar dial, the twin barrel movement with lever platform escapement with bimetallic balance, striking the hours, half hours and quarters on a pair of blued steel gongs mounted on a block stamped F.D on three hammers. Currently running, striking and repeating. 17cms highThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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A late 18th Century French ormolu mantel clock with centre seconds and concentric dateBouchetSurmounted by an urn finial over foliage and berried swags on a reeded column to a stepped base and shaped plinth on adjustable turned feet, the signed five inch white enamel dial with black Roman and Arabic numerals framing the red Arabic date ring, with finely pierced and engraved gilt hands for the time, a serpentine hand for the date, and a tapering centre seconds hand, the large circular movement with deadbeat 'scape wheel cocked on the backplate, with pierced outside countwheel strike on a bell. Running and striking, with pendulum and a winding key. 44cms (17ins) high.Footnotes:Provenance:Single family ownership for 67 years. Purchased from Richard Grose Ltd, South Kensington and Brighton, a copy of a letter from Grose Ltd dated 5th November 1964 is included with this lot.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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A fine and rare second quarter of the 18th century ebonised striking table clock with hour repeatDaniel and Thomas Grignion 'from the late Mr Quare, London' The inverted bell top case surmounted by a brass handle over long arched glazed side panels, the front door with finely moulded frame slightly canted corners to moulded base and block feet, the 5.5 inch arched brass dial with strike/silent subsidiary dial over four basket-of-fruit spandrels framing the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring and very finely matted centre, with chamfered mock pendulum aperture and arched silvered signature plaque 'Danl: & Thos: Grignion from/the late Mr: Quare London', with finely cut blued steel hands, the twin gut fusee movement with six knopped pillars, verge escapement and rack strike on the bell, with pull cord for hourly repeat from below, the backplate repeat signed 'from the late Mr Quare' within a pattern of interlaced foliate scrolls. 43cms (17ins) highFootnotes:Provenance:Single family ownership for approximately the last 80 years.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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A late 17th century and later walnut and marquetry Longcase clockThe later dial unsigned, The formerly rising hood with blind cut fret over ebonised spiral columns, (the front now cut for a hinged door) over a long trunk with five panels of bird, urn and flower inlay on an oyster-cut ground, the sides with boxwood panels, the base with a further panel depicting a bird in flight, the 10.5 inch later dial with winged cherubs head spandrels, silvered Roman chapter ring with each minute numbered, matted centre with late 18th century matching hands, the 17th century movement with five knopped and ringed latched pillars, the backplate cut for the anchor but now with later anchor escapement cocked from the backplate, the backplate further set with the outside countwheel for the strike on the bell above. (Case and movement seemingly original to one another, dial and hands later replacements). 1.96m (6ft 5ins) high.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TPTP Lot will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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An 18th century brass lantern clockWilliam Jackson, LondonThe strapped bell over urn finials and side frets, tapering columns and ball feet, with hoop and spike wall fixings, the signed 8 inch arched brass dial with silvered Roman chapter ring with floating half hour markers with single hand, weight driven movement with pivotted verge escapement with short bob pendulum, striking the hours on the bell. 38cms (14 1/2ins) highFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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A rare late 17th century silver-mounted red-stained tortoise-shell veneered, quarter repeating table clockObadiah Grevill, LondonThe case with caddy top with silvered decorative mounts surmounted by a knopped 's' scroll handle over a stepped cornice and glazed rectangular side panels on a plinth base, the 6 3/4 inch square brass dial with silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with fleur de lys half markers, matted centre and chamfered date aperture at VI with blued steel fettled hands, all framed by winged cherubs head spandrels. The signed twin gut fusee movement with knife edge verge escapement striking the hours on a main bell and sounding the quarters on a nest of three bells and hammers on command via a pull cord to the side, signed in a foliate cartouche within a symmetrical pattern of foliage and four pairs of flowerheads. Ticking and striking, together with a 17th century style foliate winding key and two case keys. 37cms (14 1/2ins) high (3)Footnotes:Obadiah Grevill was born around 1660 and apprenticed 1674 to the Goldsmith's corporation, by 1681 he was made free of the City of London. In 1697 he signed the Goldsmith's Company oath of alliance.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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A very fine and rare early 19th century large English skeleton clock with world time indicationBarraud, Cornhill, LondonThe clock designed as a globe on a turned column set on three folding cabriole legs, each terminating in a knurled levelling screw at the foot, the horizon ring 10 inches in diameter and surmounted with a signed arc set with gilt East and West indicators, the time shown by two rays emanating from the gilt brass sun mounted centrally between horizontal chapter rings for Arabic minutes (0-60) and Roman hours (marked for a full 24 hour period, twice I-XII), over a 360 degree band, the silvered Equator band engraved with a remarkable list of nearly one hundred place names or reference points, each positioned to mark the time difference between itself and London (see full list below).The twin chain fusee movement with pierced plates united by turned pillars set within the 'Southern hemisphere', (the upper plate larger than the lower so as to fit inside the curved lower part), both trains with skeletonised spring barrels to a chain fusee, the going terminating in a horizontal deadbeat 'scape wheel visible on the top plate, the polished steel rack strike work also visible on the top plate activating the hammer and bell mounted on the underside. Running and striking. Set on the original ebonised circular plinth with brass locating points for the levelling screws, under the original glass dome. Further set on a 19th/early 20th century (?) reeded mahogany pedestal. Together with the possibly original winding key with bespoke elongated steel shank. 1.65m (5ft 5ins) high in total. Footnotes:Provenance: Single family ownership for the last 100-120 years. The full list of place names is as follows:London - Amsterdam - German - Corsica - Sardinia - Denmark - Italy - Rome - Malta - Norway - C.Good H - Sweden - Poland - Hungary - Turk - Eur - Candia - Smyrna - Constantinople - Petersburg - Syria - Mosco - Medina Mecca - Arabia - S. Babelmandel - Madagascar - I. of France - Tartary - Samarcand - Malabar - Coromandel - Bay of Bengal - Strait of Malacca - Siam Bay - Batavia - Cochin China - Canton - China Sea - Phillips Islands - Mollucca - N. Holland - N. Guinea - NS Wales - N.Britain - N.Ireland - Botany Bay - C(ape) of Deliverance - Queen Chts.Isles - Montague I - Esratum I - N Zealand - Antipodes - Pacific Ocean - Rotterdam I - Tuberones I. - Sandwich Islands - Hervey's I. - Howe I. - Huahine - Miatea - Tubukaa - Resolution - Hood Adventure - Nootka Sound - California - N Mexico - Easter I. - Mexico - Verra Cruz - G. of Mexico - Virginia - Savannah - Florida - Jamaica - Charlestown - Quito - Peru - N.York Quebec - N. Britain - Boston - Halifax - Guadaloupe - Surinum - Cayenna - Brazil - St. Salvador - Trinidada - Atlantic Ocean - C.Verdis Isds. - Canary Isds. - C.Verd - Portugal - Guinea - France - Spain - Morocco.Two similar but much smaller examples by Barraud were sold in these rooms 29th July 2020 'The Jacob Collection; The Property of an Important Swiss Collector', lots 262 and 263. Another related example is illustrated in Royer-Collard, F.B. (1969) Skeleton Clocks. London: N.A.G. Press Ltd., figs.6-15 to 6-19 inclusive, and illustrated again in Roberts, Skeleton Clocks. Woodbridge, ACC, colour plate 4.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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A rare first half of the 17th century German gilt engraved brass table clock or 'Tischuhr'The architectural case surmounted by a spire raised on a cupola above an openwork gallery housing the bell, with obelisk finials to the corners and two sections of fretwork balustrade (two lacking), each corner set with a tapering column on tall bases engraved with tall flowers, on a spreading plinth base, two sides set with architectural glazed arches to reveal the movement, the front panel with a 2.25 inch silvered brass dial with Roman I-XII and inner Arabic 13-24 hour numerals, with blued steel hand, the reverse set with a 1.75 inch silvered dial revealing the last hour struck on the countwheel, the spring driven movement with capped barrels to short gut fusees, both wound through the rear, the going train with later sprung plain brass balance wheel to the verge escapement, the hours struck on the bell above. 27.5cms (10 1/2ins) high (1)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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A fine and very rare late 19th century French petite sonnerie striking silvered carriage clock set with 'Night' and 'Day' Limoges panelsLe Roy et Fils, Palais Royal 13 & 15, Paris, number 12575, further numbered 13273. The platform stamped PM and an anchor. The fancy case surmounted by a cast handle over a bevelled glass inspection panel engraved with the entwined initials 'HB', the frame cast with fruit swags, addorsed dolphins, strapwork and flowers, all framing the four 'en grisaille' enamel panels: the left hand side panel depicting Aurora, the goddess of the dawn, in diaphanous robes awaking a cherub as a cockerel crows beside her; the right hand panel representing evening, the cherub now sleeping as an owl flies above, the rear panel depicts six cherubs at play and rest - one plucks a harp while others weave, drink play and sleep, the signed gilt Roman dial with good gilt hands, above a group of four cherubs representing science and the arts, above them Apollo rides his horse-drawn chariot across the sky, a gilt Zodiac sign running in an arc across the dial.The movement. The silvered platform signed with the trademark PM and an anchor with compensated bimetallic balance to a vertical 'scape wheel and lever mounted below the platform, (a cut out in the backplate allowing sight thereof) signed and numbered and with an enamel alarm-setting disc, striking the hours and quarters on a pair of blued steel gongs, a two-position selection lever in the base offering the choice of striking or silence 19cms (7.5ins) high. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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A late 19th century French architectural repeating carriage clock with painted panelsThe brass case surmounted by a substantial handle over a bevelled glass inspection panel set into a pagoda top surrounded by knopped columns and pierced fretwork over two painted side panels; the first depicting two women with a fortune teller, the second showing two lovers admiring a pair of love birds, the rectangular gold ground Roman dial with blued-steel hands, surrounded by a pastoral scene of a lutist and two women, the twin barrel movement with silvered lever platform escapement with bi-metallic compensated balance, striking the hours and half hours on a blued-steel coiled gong mounted on a block. Not currently ticking, but striking and repeating. 22cms (8 1/2ins) high (1)Footnotes:This style of brass free-standing column case can be found in Fanelli, J., Terwilliger, Ch. (1987) A Century of Fine Carriage Clocks. Bronxville: Clock Trade Enterprises, p.71.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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A rare second half of the 19th century French quarter striking brass carriage clockVictoriene Boseet - V.B over a crown in a heart.The case with unusual moulded cornice incorporating an oval inspection glass over glazed sides, on a moulded base, the white enamel Roman and Arabic dial with blued steel Breguet style hands set over an enamel alarm-setting dial within a mask engraved with foliate scrollwork on a matted ground, the movement with large frosted silvered lever platform escapement stamped twice with the V.B. trademark, striking the quarters on a pair of blued steel coiled gongs set within the base, the alarm sounding on a bell to the base, the strike activated via a blued steel rack mounted on the signed backplate and regulated by a quarter-strike countwheel directly geared to the hand setting arbor. Running. Alarm functioning, striking the hours and quarters. Together with an associated travelling case with a double ended key. 16cms (6.25ins) high.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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A second half of the 19th century French brass gorge cased bell-striking carriage clockRetailed by J. Klaftenberger, 157 Regent Street, London. Numbered 1600The rippled handle over a large inspection panel and bevelled sides on a moulded base, the signed white enamel Roman dial with Breguet style hands, the numbered movement with silvered lever platform escapement with compensated bimetallic balance striking and repeating the hours on a bell. Running, striking and repeating. Together with the original velvet-lined travel case and a double-ended key. 16cms (6.25ins) high. (3)Footnotes:J. Klaftenberger was in business from 1863 to 1881, he retailed the finest carriage clocks of the period.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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An impressive late 19th century French three-colour gilt and silvered brass grande-sonnerie striking carriage clockNumbered 8716The Anglaise style case with substantial handle over a raised bevelled glass inspection panel and glazed sides, four urn finials over a bold dentil cornice flanked by Corinthian style columns with 'pink gold' capitals, on a stepped base, the rectangular white enamel Roman and Arabic dial with blued steel hands set above an alarm-setting dial, the silvered lever platform escapement with cut and compensated bimetallic balance striking and repeating the hours and quarters on a pair of blued steel coiled gongs, with three-position selection lever in the base offering 'grande sonnerie', 'petite sonnerie' or 'silence'. Running, striking and repeating. 21cms (8.25ins) high.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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A 19th century porcelain ormolu and glass jewelled lyre clock garnitureHowell & James Ltd, To the Queen, 5,7,9 Regent Street, LondonThe lyre shaped case surmounted by a sunburst medallion and floral festoon over boldly cast and crisply finished rope twists and foliage on a concave socle applied with beading and a swagged garland on toupie feet, the dial and movement in the centre with a grid iron pendulum and a glass jewelled bezel attached to the pendulum (some stones lacking), the 4 inch signed white enamel Arabic dial with gilt fancy hands, decorated with floral swagged garlands to the inner circle, the circular movement stamped Paris 513, striking the hours and half hours on a bell, striking but not currently ticking. The clock is accompanied by a pair of floral and foliate inspired candelabra on an urn stem decorated with glass jewel banding, swagged garlands and centaur masks on stepped plinth base on toupie feet. The candelabra: 47cms high. 49cms (19ins) high (3)Footnotes:Howell James & Co. was a firm of jewellers and silversmiths based in London's Regent Street for almost a century, from 1819 to 1911. The firm exhibited at the Great Exhibition in London in 1851 and at the 1862 International Exhibition. In 1884 it became a Limited Company.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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A good late 17th century French quarter repeating travel timepiece with balance/pendulum - driven verge escapementGribelin, ParisThe shaped case surmounted by a pierced ormolu caddy and folding handle on a foliate pommel, the intricately cast cornice over curved sides with brass-line inlay within wider brass borders, on a cast base with intricate cast base on turned feet, the front of the case hinged at IX and VI, and set with an ormolu-framed shaped glazed door, the conforming waisted gilt dial six inches wide with a silvered Roman chapter ring with meeting-arrow-head half hour markers and every minute engraved around the outer edge, with fine blued steel hands, all on a shaped gilt dial plate engraved all-over with shaded foliate scroll work, a regulation dial set above XII, the movement plates united by four tapering pillars, with large spring barrel to a verge escapement to a silk-suspended short pendulum impulsed by a pin set on a plain steel circular balance, signed along the lower edge of the backplate, the hours and quarters sounded on demand by a pull cord to the side of the case acting on three vertical hammers and bells mounted in the caddy. 38cmsFootnotes:A similar travelling timepiece, lacking its balance wheel, was sold in these rooms 17 June 2008, lot 112.Comparative literature:A related tete de poupee timepiece (with alarm) by Gribelin with very similar dial engraving is illustrated in Tardy 'La Pendule Francaise, 1re Partie: De l'Horloge Gothique a la Pendule Louis XV. 1967, page 103. Another by Isaac Thuret is similar is illustrated in Vehmeyer, Clocks, their origin and development, part II, chapter 5 item F33. Of those seen, the current clock has the most intricate brass panelling and finely finished brass work.Nicolas Gribelin was born in 1635 and died in 1715.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * Y* VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.Y Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the EU, see clause 13.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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A fine and rare mid 19th century giant brass English carriage clock with centre seconds and original wooden travelling case and numbered winding keyJames McCabe, Royal Exchange, London, No.2699The substantial case surmounted by a ribbed handle over a large bevelled glass inspection panel with integral repeat button, over a moulded pediment and glazed side panels, the solid rear door with shuttered winding and hand-setting squares and sliding strike/silent option. The silvered rectangular dial with florid foliate scrolls against a matted ground, the 3.75 inch Roman chapter ring with dotted minute track and elaborate foliate engraved centre, the half-hours marked by engraved foliage between the hour numerals, and subsidiary seconds dial at XII, blued steel trefoil hands, (the seconds hand particularly slender), signed and numbered below VI, all framed by an angled sight ring. The twin chain fusee movement with Harrison's maintaining power to an underslung lever escapement on a large gilt platform with gilt monometallic balance, striking the hours on a blued steel coiled gong. Running, striking and repeating. Together with the original brass banded mahogany travelling case with recessed 'campaign style' handle and lockable rear door, with sliding folding front inspection panel set with a vacant ivory cartouche and designed with a hinge to allow sight of the dial when in transit. Together the original numbered double-ended brass winding and hand-setting key. 25cms (9 1/2ins high) (3)Footnotes:Provenance:Single family ownership since at least the 1940s.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: Y ФY Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the EU, see clause 13.Ф This lot contains or is made of ivory. The United States Government has banned the import of ivory into the USA.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Los 65
A good late 17th/early 18th century silver-mounted turtleshell-veneered table clock with pull quarter repeatG.Etherington, LondonThe caddy top surmounted by a silver handle with central foliate and bud knop, over a moulded cornice, and four rectangular repousse side panels depicting flowers in an urn and bust portraits, on cast squat ball and claw feet, both front and rear doors with applied escutcheon plates.The 6.25 inch square brass dial with subsidiaries in the top corners for rise-and-fall regulation and strike/silent over the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring signed between V and VII, with blued steel hands the matted centre with chamfered mock pendulum and date apertures decorated with characteristic decorative ringed detailing, the lower corners with winged cherubs spandrels. The twin fusee movement with six knopped and ringed pillars and a seventh plain but latched uniting the two plates, the backplate deliberately larger in order to fill as much of the rear of the case as possible and signed within a flat oval palm-frond reserve amid a symmetrical pattern of foliate scrolls and strapwork. The going train terminating in a verge escapement with rise-and-fall regulation effected via a shaped steel lever on a rack and pinion set-up on the backplate, the pendulum with hook fixing to the top and terminating in a lenticular bob, with unusual shaped steel securing bracket. The strike train sounding the hours on a single bell, with pull quarter repeat sounding the quarters on a run of three bells and hammers. Ticking, striking and repeating. Together with a case key. 33.5cms (13ins) high (3)Footnotes:George Etherington was free of the Clockmakers Company in 1684 and Master in 1709. He attended until 1720 and supposedly died in 1729.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * Y* VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.Y Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the EU, see clause 13.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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A large 19th century lacquered brass skeleton clock with lever escapement and original domeSigned on the bell J. Taylor, 6 Silver Street, WakefieldThe elaborate scroll frame united by seven turned tapering pillars and surmounted by the signed bell, mounted on a wooden base with tooled red leather centre embossed with a gilt 'S', the 7.25 inch skeletonised Roman dial with dotted minute outer track and blued-steel trefoil hands, the twin chain fusee movement with English lever escapement mounted above XII, rack striking the hour on a blued steel coiled gong mounted on a block stamped F.D., and striking the half-hours on the bell. Running and striking, with trip repeat for the hour. Together with the large original glass dome (49cms high) and a large brass winding key. 51.5cms (20ins) high (3)Footnotes:A Joseph Taylor was active in Wakefield in 1851-71.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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A good late 18th century mahogany centre seconds longcase clockWilliam Miles, LondonThe case with pagoda top raised on freestanding stop-fluted brass-mounted Doric columns, the long door of excellent colour and figure with finely moulded edge on a panelled base with applied panel on a double apron; 12 inch one-piece silvered dial with strike/silent subsidiary above the Roman and Arabic chapter framing the shaped recessed signature plaque, with blued steel hands, the weight driven movement with plates united by four knopped pillars, unusually latched to the front plate by four distinctive curved latches, with anchor escapement and rack strike on a bell 2.42m (7ft. 11ins) high.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TPTP Lot will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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A late 19th century gilt brass petite sonnerie carriage clock with alarm and original travelling caseRetailed by T. Martin, 151 Regent Street, London. The movement by Drocourt, numbered 29043.The case surmounted by a ribbed handle over a large bevelled glass inspection panel over glazed side panels on a plinth base, with petite sonnerie lever below offering options for striking and silence, the signed white enamel Roman and Arabic dial with blued steel spade hands over an Arabic alarm dial, the stamped and numbered twin train movement with lever platform escapement compensated bimetallic balance, striking the hours, half hours and quarters on a pair of blued steel coiled gongs mounted on a block stamped A.D. Together with the original blue velvet lined travelling case and an associated double ended brass winding key. Running, striking and repeating. 17.5cms (6 1/2 ins) high (3)Footnotes:T. Martin & Co. were known as retailers of high quality timepieces that were mostly imported from France.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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A small and rare late 19th century French gorge-cased carriage clock by Margaine with presentation inscription dated 1880Margaine, No.723. Further stamped C.V. in an oval. The rippled handle over a full-width bevelled glass inspection panel, over matching side panels, the moulded cornice with repeat button, the base engraved 'C.F.Poynder, A.M.D./from his father/Christmas 1880', the white enamel Roman dial with blued steel spade hands set within a silvered mask, the signed movement with silvered lever platform escapement with compensated bimetallic balance striking and repeating on a coiled blued steel gong. Running, striking and repeating. Together with an associated travelling case with modern double-ended winding/setting key. 13.5cms (5ins) high. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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A late 17th century walnut marquetry longcase clock with bolt and shutter maintaining power, previously in the Wetherfield CollectionChristopher Gould Surmounted by a (later?) carved cresting of two cherubs heads over a pair of wings and scrolls, with twist columns and an inlaid front door, the trunk with three panels of bird and flower inlay on a matching panel base raised on bun feet, the 10.5ins square brass dial with engraved wheatear border framing the large winged cherubs head spandrels, Roman and Arabic chapter ring (with half-quarter marks), finely matted centre with subsidiary seconds, ringed winding squares, chamfered decorated date aperture and engraved foliate boss to the centre, with fine blued steel hands, the movement with five knopped and ringed pillars, bolt and shutter maintaining power to an anchor escapement, with outside countwheel strike on a bell, the backplate with shaped aperture for the pallet arbor 2.1m (6ft 11ins) high.Footnotes:Provenance:The Wetherfield Collection in the early 20th century.Literature:Illustrated on the front cover Bruton, E. (1981) The Wetherfield Collection of Clocks a Guide to Dating English Antique Clocks. London: N.A.G. Press Ltd. Illustrated and described page 146, plate 100. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TPTP Lot will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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A fine 19th century French gilt brass carriage clock with calendar in the manner of Abraham Louis BreguetThe Classically inspired case with folding bud handle and four bud finials on an engine turned ground over rosettes and reeded columns to a matching base on button feet, the white enamel dial with blue Roman numerals, minute track and blued steel trefoil hands over a subsidiary date dial within an engine turned mask, the movement with twin barrels driving a gilt platform with bimetallic balance to a lever escapement, the strike and repeat on a bell behind a shuttered rear panel. Together with an associated mid 19th century leather covered travel case and a double ended key. 16cms (6.25ins) high. Footnotes:This carriage clock is closely modelled on the early travel clocks by the great Abraham Louis Breguet. Comparable examples by Breguet were sold in these rooms 11 December 2019, lot 106 (Breguet number 2889, circa 1804), lot 107 (Breguet number 4248, circa 1837) and lot 109 (Breguet number 2963, circa 1820).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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A rare mid 19th century French quarter striking carriage clock with chaff cutter escapement and alarmPaul Garnier, H.er du Roi Paris, the case numbered 2679The engraved one-piece case surmounted by a handle and a large bevelled glass inspection panel and repeat button, with shuttered rear door, signed white enamel Roman dial, with trefoil hands, over a subsidiary alarm dial, the twin barrel movement with Garnier's chaff cutter escapement with mono-metallic balance, with silence lever, striking on two bells with three hammers. Striking, repeating but not currently running. 17cms highThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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A fine and rare late 19th century French 'Orientalist' three colour gilt repeating carriage clock with original travelling caseThe highly elaborate case surmounted by a substantial knopped and rippled handle over a bevelled glass inspection panel and repeat button on a stepped top over a pierced fretwork cornice and composite pilasters with highly decorative side panels depicting Oriental scenes on a plinth base, the highly elaborate Roman dial with blued steel spear hands with a star motif centre, set within a mask depicting a swan on a lake, the twin barrel movement with lever platform escapement with compensated bimetallic balance, striking the hours and half hours on a blued steel coiled gong. Currently running, striking and repeating. Together with a brass double ended winding key and the original leather and red velvet lined travelling case. 21cms highThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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