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Lot 446
A George II Sterling silver caster, by Samuel Wood, London 1735of plain baluster form, domed cover with pierced alternating panels of scrolls and pierced dots, bell shaped finial, on spread circular baseHeight: 15 cm. Weight: 146 gramsCatalogue Note:Samuel Wood (Stafford, England 1704 – Southgate 1794)Born c. 1704, son of George Wood late of Carswell in the County of Stafford gentleman deceased, apprenticed to Thomas Bamford 7 June 1721 on payment of £15. Free, 5 March 1730/?1. His first mark entered as largeworker, 3 July 1733. Address: Gutter Lane by Cheapside. Livery, April 1737. Second mark undated, between September 1737 and August 1738, same address. Third mark, 15 June 1739. Court, May 1745. Moved to Foster Lane, and fourth mark entered, 15 July 1754. Fifth mark, 2 October 1756. Warden 1758-60, and Prime Warden 1763. Appears as plateworker, Southgate, in the Parl. Report list 1773. Heal records him as plateworker, Gutter Lane, 1733-40; and Southgate (?St.Paul’s Churchyard), 1773. That Southgate was, however, the northern suburb is clear from his obituary (below). Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Wood, baptized 30 May 1738 at St. Vedast; Foster Lane is presumably his child. No others appear recorded. Wood’s obituary in ‘The Gentleman’s Magazine’, 6 October 1794, paints the picture of a stalwart character: ‘at Southgate aged 90 of a second paralytic stroke, Mr. Wood, goldsmith of London. His daughter married Mr. Howitt, mercer of London whose only daughter is married to Mr. James Moore of Cheapside. For the last two years of his life he used to ride to town every week, to transact business at Goldsmith’s hall, being the father and oldest member of that company.’ Through his apprenticeship to Thomas Bamford, who himself had been bound to Charles Adam, Wood came of a continuous line of specialist caster-makers and in turn trained both Jabez Daniell and Robert Piercey (q.v.), both clearly established also in the same line of production. Wood’s cruets and individual casters, to judge from the very large number surviving, must have been produced on a wholesale manufacturing basis, but are, no less for that, of a uniformly high standard and one of the most attractively designed smaller items of plate, without which no reasonably equipped table of the eighteenth century appears to have been complete.Samuel Wood was born 1704, and in 1721 was apprenticed to Thomas Bamford who had been bound to Charles Adam. Wood came from a continuous line of specialist castor-makers. According to Arthur Grimwade so many were produced and were of such a ‘uniformly high standard and one of the most attractively designed smaller items of plate, without which no reasonably equipped table of the eighteenth century appears to have been complete’.The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections or the effects of aging. Condition requests can be obtained via email
Lot 124
A Charles X French bracket clock, the eight-day movement striking on a bell and signed Lesieur, the gilt metal face depicting a sea battle, with Roman numerals, within an ormolu figural case modelled as a dolphin, on an oval plinth with swag and ribbon frieze and moulded acanthus leaf borders, on bun feet, h. 42 cm CONDITION REPORT: Provenance: purchased from Christies in 1993- Sacombe Park Sale from King Street, London. Included in a Phillips Inventory in 1998.
Lot 1780
BRASS LANTERN CLOCK, the dial with 6 1/2" chapter ring and single steel hand in an engraved scrolling frame and beneath a boss inscribed Wm. Gill Maidstone, on a brass movement with anchor escapement, beneath pierced fretwork and steel bell, with weight, pendulum and wooden bracket, height of clock 36cm
Lot 1781
BRASS LANTERN CLOCK, the 7 1/2" silvered dial with single steel hand, flanked by spandrils and beneath a silver boss inscribed Thomas Lumpking, London, on a brass movement with anchor escapement beneath pierced fretwork and a bell, with pendulum and weight, height 38cm Footnote: the inscription to the boss is perhaps a mis-spelling of Thomas Lumpkin.Further images available here
Lot 1782
REGENCY MAHOGANY BRACKET CLOCK, the brass dial with 8" chapter ring, inscribed Thos Farr, Bristol beneath Music Silent and chime selection dials, to include King of Romes Waltz, Ella Rosenberg, Russian Dance, Waterloo Dance, Duke Wellington, Evening Hymn and Bath Waltz, on a brass, twin fusee, eight day, repeating movement chiming to a nest of eleven bells and striking to a single bell, the brass inlaid domed case with glazed front and back doors, the sides with silk lined, brass, fish scale grilles, with key and pendulum, height excluding finial 63cm
Lot 1785
WALNUT LONGCASE CLOCK, the brass dial with 11 1/2" silvered dial, subsidiary seconds dial and date aperture and a silvered plaque inscribed Benj Gray Just Vulliamy, on a four pillar, eight day movement hourly striking to a bell, the hood with silk backed fretwork panel and 3/4 columns, the trunk with cross and feather banding above a plinth base, with weights and pendulum, height 218cm
Lot 1787
MAHOGANY LONGCASE CLOCK, the brass dial with 12" silvered chapter ring, inner date ring and masonic engraving beneath a pair of hemispheres and moonphase, inscribed to the arch W Skeoch, North Shields, on a brass, eight day, four pillar movement striking hourly to a bell, the hood with columns, the trunk with ogee shaped trunk door and Chippendale style blind fretwork to the canted corners, weights and pendulum, height 224cm
Lot 1789
OAK MUSICAL LONGCASE CLOCK, the painted dial with 13 3/4" chapter ring and inner date ring, centred with a pastoral scene and inscribed Sam. Ashton Bredbury, flanked by spandrils of maidens allegorical of the four seasons, beneath a pair of terrestrial hemispheres and moonphase, the brass, five pillar movement chiming to a nest of eight bells and striking to one bell, geared to play one of seven different aires each day of the week, the hood with broken swan neck pediment and brass mounted columns, the case with mahogany crossbanding and the door inlaid with a shell motif, with weights, pendulum and key, height 223cm
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