Dreweatts Donnington Priory Salerooms
Lot 190
A Regency brass inlaid ebonised bracket clock, Wyatt, London, early 19th century, the five pillar twin fusee movement with anchor escapement, shouldered plates and striking the hour on a bell mounted on the backplate, the 5.75 inch square single sheet silvered brass Roman numeral dial signed WYATT, South Audley Street, London to centre, with fine heart pierced blued steel hands and foliate scroll engraved decoration to spandrels, the case with brass basket of flowers cast finial to the shallow gadroon carved cushion caddy resting on shallow stepped upstand above front with silvered brass angled fillet to glazed front door flanked by brass strip inset canted angles over apron now inlaid with foliate scroll motif, the sides with cast lions mask ring handles above rectangular brass sound frets, on moulded skirt base with compressed bun feet, 38cm (15ins) high. Henry Wyatt is recorded in Loomes, Brian Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World, Volume 2 as working in London in 1839, other records indicate that he was 55 years old in 1841 and shared the premises in South Audley Street with his family including his successor, John aged 19 years.
