Ralph Banks, Plymouth Dock (Devonport) mahogany longcase clock, c1780-1800, the 8-day movement striking on a bell, the brass break arch dial with raised Roman chapter ring, the centre with subsidiary seconds dial and date aperture engraved Ralph Banks, Plymouth Dock, floral spandrels to the corners and rocking ship automaton over, the hood with reeded pillars and brass capitols, the arch top with acorn finials, approximately 218cm tall. Ralph Banks worked in Plymouth Docks, Devonport and often used movements bought in from John Thwaite, London, and cases made by a local carpenter. He married Rebecca Palmer Collings at Stoke Dameral parish in 1782 (listed as clock maker on marriage certificate) by 1812 the business was listed under Rebecca's name
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A Chinese mother-of-pearl inlaid hardwood cased automaton table clockThe 8 1/2 inch white painted dial with Roman numerals within floral spandrels below three articulated figures standing before an arched panel with calligraphic script, the four pillar bell striking movement indistinctly signed, the case with scalloped pediment and pineapple finials, standing on ball feet, supported on a similarly inlaid rotating plinth base. 85 cm high. CONDITION REPORTS: In need of an overhaul and restoration, various cracks, old repairs and losses to case, movement detached from dial, glass panel lacking, sold as seen.
A Chinese gilt metal cased automaton table clockThe 6 inch white painted dial with Roman numerals within gilt spandrels below a faux waterfall and stream behind naturalistically pierced panels, the bell striking movement signed Cheong Smag Comton and further signed in Chinese script, the case surmounted with a pagoda enclosing automated acrobats. 72 cm high. CONDITION REPORTS: In need of an overhaul, some mounted elements to case loose, some glass panels lacking, some elements misshapen, sold as seen.
David O'Kane (b.1985) AUTOMATON oil on canvas signed and titled on reverse 64 by 64in. (162.6 by 162.6cm) Born in Lifford, County Donegal and works between Dublin and Berlin. O'Kane graduated from NCAD in 2006 where he studied painting and art history. Later he attended Academy of Visual Arts (HGB) Leipzig, Germany from 2007 to 2012. He has won numerous awards, scholarships and residencies. In 2014 he won the Golden Fleece Award in Dublin. He was resident artist at the Stiftung Starke in Berlin from 2010 until 2013. He was awarded the Derek Hill Foundation Scholarship and Residency at the British School at Rome in 2009. Tom Morton awarded him joint first prize at the Claremorris Open Exhibition. In 2008 his short film 'Babble' was produced by eva and it won an eva open award from the curator, Hou Hanru. He also exhibited in eva in 2009. His proposal for the artistic projects tender at the Serralves em Festa 2008 in Oporto, Portugal was commissioned by the Regina Guimarães. In 2006 he won the R.C. Lewis-Crosby Award at the Royal Dublin Society. He works primarily as a painter, though print and film are also a part of his practice. "These paintings present an amalgamation of signs representing an autonomous reality." said O'Kane of his paintings for the CAP Foundation award exhibition in 2006. His work can be found in the collections of the OPW, Bank of Ireland, AXA, Trinity College, Yale, Princeton and Boston Colleges in the US among many other internationally.
ROBERT FLEETWOOD, LONDON. A GEORGE III EBONISED QUARTER CHIMING AUTOMATON BRACKET CLOCK the bell top case with brass pineapple finials and mounted brass moulding above shallow arched glazed door flanked by brass caryatid mounts and side carrying handles on plinth base and bracket feet. Enclosing an ogee shaped top dial having painted seascape behind rocking ships above a silvered engraved Roman and Arabic chapter ring with small subsidiary dials to the corners for Chime/silent and days of the week, matted centre with calendar aperture and mock pendulum. Fronting an eight-day spring driven double fusee movement with five knopped pillars and verge escapement chiming the quarters on a nest of eight bells and the hour on a separate bell 60cm high.
ARCHIBALD JOHN CURRIE, LONDON. A RARE GEORGE III ENGLISH DOUBLE FUSEE AUTOMATON PICTURE CLOCK the hinged moulded gilt frame with inner black and gilt glazed hinged slip enclosing a painted country village scene of children playing on a rocking seesaw with rotating windmill and clock tower in the background fronting a double fusee spring driven movement with engraved border and signed backplate striking the hours on a bell, inner back of case with original clockmakers label 55cm high 70cm wide overall; with original door locks and keysConditionIn very good original condition.
WILLIAM DOWNIE, EDINBURGH. A GEORGE III EBONISED AUTOMATON BRACKET CLOCK the bell top style case with folding brass handle above a glazed front opening door enclosing a 7" ogee shaped brass and painted dial with automated musicians playing instruments and a windmill in the background that rotates when striking above a silvered Roman chapter ring, gilt brass spandrels and silvered engraved centre with calendar aperture fronting an eight-day double fusee movement striking the hours in a bell 56cm high to top of handle.ConditionCase is complete and unrestored with original finish, dial in good original condition, silvering rubbed, Movement is missing a wheel from the backplate on the striking mechanism.
Rare Swiss automaton ivory and brass desk clock, painted with a village scene depicting figures seated before a clock tower with an automaton cherub forging an arrow, inscribed on the back plate 'Idyll au Village' fab Suisse no. 57465, within a brass bound glazed frame supported upon a rectangular black and white marble streaked base, 5.25" wide
A West German gilt brass singing bird automaton, with three birds under a dome, 27cm (at fault) CONDITION REPORT: All three birds heads turn and two birds beaks open and close. Mechanism winds happily but there is not singing, attention needed to the mechanism. LIght age wear but generally appearance ok.
Wiegleb (Johann Christian). Die Natürliche Magie aus allerhand belustigenden und nützlichen Kunststücken bestehend, 20 volumes including index bound in 19, 1st editions (volume 1 3rd edition), Berlin & Stettin: Friedrich Nicolai, 1786-1805, 241 folding engraved plates on 238 leaves, additional series title-pages to volumes 6-20, small ink library stamp to lower right corner of title-pages, occasional spotting and light browning, contemporary half calf gilt, heavily rubbed, some joints cracked, two spines missing and several with leather lifting and chips to extremities, 8vo A rare complete set of this encyclopaedic work on natural magic, which covers card tricks, illusions by electrical, optical, and pneumatic means, and contemporary wonders including Wolfgang von Kempelen's chess-playing automaton 'The Turk'. (19)
Kempelen (Wolfgang von). Le Mecanisme de la Parole, suivi de la description d'une machine parlante..., 1st French edition, Vienna: B. Bauer for J.V. Degen, 1791, engraved portrait frontispiece and 26 engraved plates, a little scattered spotting, lacks half-title and errata leaf at rear, old cloth, rebacked with original spine relaid, rubbed and soiled, 8vo (18 x 11.5cm) Published in the same year as the first German edition, this rare work gives a description of an automaton and the technique of producing the sound articulation and phonation of European languages. The automaton here described was built in 1778 and the plates show partly the anatomical details of the human speech organs and the construction of the speaking machine. Kempelen is today best-known as the inventor of the infamous hoax automaton chess player, named 'The Turk', with which he toured the courts of Europe. (1)
A George III ormolu-mounted ebonised quarter-striking automaton clock with moonphase, calendar and sweep centre seconds.The case surmounted by a man standing beneath a cupola, striking a bell with each hand, via a linked hammer to the movement, above a square shaped galleried platform with urn finials, above an arch with four further finials, the front with foliate mounts and a shaped hinged door, flanked by canted angles with foliate mounts, the sides each with a brass carrying handle and a grille panel (one lost), on scrolled bracket feet; the shaped arched brass dial plate with 5 ½ in. white enamel dial, Roman chapters and Arabic five-minute markers, pierced gilt brass hands and sweep centre seconds, the arch centred by a shallow concave recess with moon phase shown as a rotating sphere, flanked to each side by white enamel subsidiaries for STRIKE/SILENT and the date of the moon, the fine-quality twin-train chain fusée movement, wound from the back, with verge escapement, foliate-engraved backplate, five turned pillars, intermediate wheelwork behind the dial for the moon phase and two link arms for the automaton striking63 cm. high, (one key). Illustrated This fine quality clock, with unusual dial arrangement, with its sweep centre seconds, moon phase and age, together with the fine quality wheelwork, would suggest a skilled London workshop. The case can be compared with another automaton clock by Robert Philip, London. The cases are virtually identical, utilising the same shaped design for the door, caryatids and with a standing figure beneath the cupola, which was sold at Bonhams, London, 6 July 2016, lot 75.
A George III ormolu, Geneva enamel and paste set automaton timepiece For the Chinese market, attributed to William Carpenter, circa 1800 with later movementsThe case surmounted by a twin-handled urn issuing rotating tri-form gilt flower heads with stiff-leaf below, the paste-set body with blue, green, red and clear stones, and with six hexagonal-shaped rotating 'florets', raised on a quadruped bacchic pedestal, supported on splayed cloven feet between wreaths, the rectangular case with four vase-shaped finials, above a paste set pediment, the sides each with a polychrome enamel blue-ground panel designed with a foliate spray, and housing the later musical movement, No. 33702, with a 41-toothed steel comb, tripped by a small lever on the right hand side, which when activated turns the automata on the vase, the front inset with a later white enamel dial and later Swiss gilt lever movement, with hinged back door, on a stepped plinth, with paste set border, on foliate cast ball feet29.3 cm. high. Illustrated William Carpenter produced many complex automata clocks for the Chinese market. He was a member of the Clockmakers' Company from 1770-1817, gaining his Freedom in 1781. He worked at various addresses in Soho, London; 45 Frith Street 1778-1784; 15 Frith Street 1790-95; 10 St Martin's Court, St Martin's Lane 1798-1812 and in 1817, at the age of about 77 years old, retired to 5 Haberdashers Walk, Hoxton. He worked with James Cox on the production of his complex automata clocks; was a frequent customer of the clockmakers Thwaites and Reed, with 50 'jobs' noted in their account books. A number of these were for clockwork drive motors, rather than clocks, which were presumably for automata work.The attribution of this clock to Carpenter can be confidently made, as four other clocks are known with the same case design decorated with Geneva enamel plaques, two of which are signed for William Carpenter.[1] 1] Sold by Arne Bruun Rasmussen, International Auctions, Copenhagen, 29-30 April, 1980 is signed C. Penter 4794, which is an abbreviation of Carpenter. This clock is similar in all external respects to this lot, including a very similar surmounting vase. 2] Sotheby's, London, Fine Clocks and Watches, 10 May 1954, lot 68. This clock again has the same case design, is surmounted by a variant vase design, topped with a running figure; is signed William Carpenter London, the dial, with Roman numerals and centre seconds hand is signed Payne & Co., 163 New Bond Street London (31.7cm high)3] With Jeremy Ltd., London. Again the same case design, but surmounted by a vase of a different design; the white enamel dial with separate subsidiaries for the hours, minutes and seconds; no details are available of the movement, musical or automaton features (30cm high).4] Sotheby's, London Good Clocks Watches, Barometers and Horological Books, 20 July 1989, lot 507. This clock again has the same body design, but is surmounted by a cupola decorated with paste stones with finial; the two train fusée chain movement, signed William Carpenter, London, with verge escapement and chiming on eight bells (26cm high).It was the Emperor Kangxi (d. 1722) who developed a strong interest in watches and clocks, building a large collection. However, his grandson, Qianlong, whose reign spanned most of the 18th Century (1735-1795), with a huge budget, collected throughout his 60-year reign. This resulted in a substantial expansion for English merchants and makers. An observation by the missionary Valentine Chalier in 1736 ' As for clocks, the Imperial palace is stuffed with them…..there must be more than 4000 from the best masters of Paris and London…'. As Dr. White notes in his extensive book English Clocks for the Eastern Markets, Qianlong was simply the greatest collector of Western clockwork there has ever been. [1] Ian White, English Clocks for the Eastern Markets (Ticehurst, UK: Antiquarian Horological Society, 2012), pp 233, 236-238.We are grateful to Dr. Ian White for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.
VICTORIAN BRASS AUTOMATON LIGHTHOUSE TIMEPIECE THERMOMETER/BAROMETER 19TH CENTURY the rotating silvered drum with a silvered timepiece dial and aneroid barometer dial flanking two spirit thermometers, the base with a door concealing a winding hole and single-barrel eight-day movement 43cm high Contents from a West Coast of Scotland Lodge
A Singing Bird in a Cage Automaton, 20th century, domed gilt metal bird cage, single bird with green and turquoise feathers, gilt wooden base with bead decorated borders and floral mounts, start/stop side lever, underside with winding key and sound fret, 30.5cm high 10.04.18, Gilt surfaces are rubbed in parts, inner red velvet base is slightly worn in parts, bird automaton is working.
A Singing Bird in a Cage Automaton, 20th century, domed gilt metal bird cage, single bird with multi coloured feathers, embossed base with scroll, floral and bird decoration, the base with a single drawer, raised upon paw feet, inside drawer with start lever, underside with a winding hole to wind the clockwork mechanism, 19cm high 29.03.18, Gilt surfaces are very slightly rubbed and small surface scratches, bird is singing and moving correctly when pulling the start automaton lever.
A 20th Century Continental carved wooden automaton lamp as a gentleman whistling, together with an Italian carved bottle opener/corkscrew as two jolly men, one further Italian bottle opener/corkscrew as a gentleman singing beneath a street lamp CONDITION REPORTS We are unable to confirm whether this automaton is in working order.
30 hour Automata longcase clock by John Lewis of Llanidloes. Arched brass dial with 'Set Thine House In Order For Thou Shalt Die, Isaiah 38 Vers 1' above a painted automaton panel depicting a skeleton (Death) holding an axe and his victim shown in bed praying. In oak case. 220cm high Condition Report. Very untouched, dial, movement and seat board all belong. Heavy 'country quality' case. 12" dial.
An unusual early 20th Century cold painted metal automaton mantel timepiece modelled in the form of an elderly lady holding two dogs, the 1.375ins diameter white enamel dial with Roman numerals, to the brass frame tic-tac movement by Mayer, moving tongues to the both dogs, the cold painted metal casing in the form of an elderly lady holding two dogs and an umbrella, with a small dog at her feet, on oval base, 10.75ins high
A 19th Century French lacquered brass "Four Glass " mantel clock by S. Marti et Cie, No. 11054, the 4.25ins diameter white enamelled chapter ring with visible escapement to the eight day two train movement with automaton style pendulum attached to a ship's wheel, contained in rectangular lacquered brass and bevelled glass case, 13.75ins high (dial damage around winding holes - side panel cracked), with key for same
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