Lot 22
A rare mid 19th century French malachite-mounted gilt brass repeating carriage clock Howell James & Co., To the Queen, London & Paris 1
16 December 2020, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £2,550 inc. premium
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A rare mid 19th century French malachite-mounted gilt brass repeating carriage clock
Howell James & Co., To the Queen, London & Paris
The highly elaborate case with ribbed handle over applied Gothic-style cast and engraved motifs centred by circular malachite inserts, the signed rectangular white enamel Roman dial with blued-steel Breguet style hands over a subsidiary alarm dial, the twin train movement with lever platform escapement, striking the hours, half hours and repeating on a bell, stamped with the 'Encircled B' trademark. Striking but not ticking. 18cms (7ins) high (1)
The highly elaborate case with ribbed handle over applied Gothic-style cast and engraved motifs centred by circular malachite inserts, the signed rectangular white enamel Roman dial with blued-steel Breguet style hands over a subsidiary alarm dial, the twin train movement with lever platform escapement, striking the hours, half hours and repeating on a bell, stamped with the 'Encircled B' trademark. Striking but not ticking. 18cms (7ins) high (1)
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. It sold items by students and designers of the South Kensington School and in 1884 it became a Limited Company. The current lot probably dates to the time of the early Exhibitions and in the decorative treatment of the gilt brass case shows the influence of another of the great London clockmakers, Thomas Cole.
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