Charlie Thomas
Group Head, Private Collections, Furniture & Works of Art, U.K
Lot 75TP
A very rare late 18th century mahogany quarter striking and musical bracket clock playing seven tunes on twelve hammers and bells William Robson Senior, North Shields
29 March 2017, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £17,500 inc. premium
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A very rare late 18th century mahogany quarter striking and musical bracket clock playing seven tunes on twelve hammers and bells
William Robson Senior, North Shields
Surmounted by an urn finial on a caddy with pierced brass sound fret over four brass finials (two replaced), the side handles and fish-scale sound frets flanked by brass strung quarter columns to each corner, on a moulded base on brass ogee bracket feet, the ten inch enamel Roman dial with matching gilt hands and minute track, framed by pierced scroll spandrels and set below enamel subsidiary dials for tune select (comprising Jigg, Song, March, Reel, Strathspey, Hornpipe and Song) and strike/silent, the very substantial movement united by eight turned pillars, with four chain fusees and deadbeat escapement striking the hours on a bell, the quarters on eight bells and hammers, and the tunes on twelve bells and hammers from a 3.25 inch diameter, 7-inch pinned barrel, signed in a foliate engraved oval cartouche on the backplate within an engraved border, the pendulum with tapering steel rod and fine screw adjustment 45cm x 29cm x 69cm
Surmounted by an urn finial on a caddy with pierced brass sound fret over four brass finials (two replaced), the side handles and fish-scale sound frets flanked by brass strung quarter columns to each corner, on a moulded base on brass ogee bracket feet, the ten inch enamel Roman dial with matching gilt hands and minute track, framed by pierced scroll spandrels and set below enamel subsidiary dials for tune select (comprising Jigg, Song, March, Reel, Strathspey, Hornpipe and Song) and strike/silent, the very substantial movement united by eight turned pillars, with four chain fusees and deadbeat escapement striking the hours on a bell, the quarters on eight bells and hammers, and the tunes on twelve bells and hammers from a 3.25 inch diameter, 7-inch pinned barrel, signed in a foliate engraved oval cartouche on the backplate within an engraved border, the pendulum with tapering steel rod and fine screw adjustment 45cm x 29cm x 69cm
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