Lot 45*,Y
A fine and rare mid 18th century English small ormolu-mounted turtle shell veneered quarter chiming table clock with enamel 24-hour dial and centre seconds, made for the Chinese market Marriott, London
29 November 2023, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£25,000 - £35,000
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A fine and rare mid 18th century English small ormolu-mounted turtle shell veneered quarter chiming table clock with enamel 24-hour dial and centre seconds, made for the Chinese market
Marriott, London
The caddy top with pine cone finial over mounts of scrolls and foliage, the side apertures backed in red silk and covered with pierced scroll frets, the arched front door with gilt liner, all set on scroll feet. The 3.75 inch white enamel dial with twice I to XII and twice 0-60 in five minute divisions, with matching gilt hands and an arrow-shaped centre seconds hand, set below a subsidiary dial to opt between strike and silence, both dials framed by foliate and shell C-scrolls. The twin gut fusee movement with shouldered plates united by five knopped pillars, both plates cast with the letter M (for Marriott?), the going train with knife-edge verge escapement, the strike train sounding the hours and quarters on a pair of bells and hammers mounted on the backplate. The backplate engraved with a central basket of flowers over the signature within a delicate floral scroll cartouche and flower sprays. 38cms (15ins) high
The caddy top with pine cone finial over mounts of scrolls and foliage, the side apertures backed in red silk and covered with pierced scroll frets, the arched front door with gilt liner, all set on scroll feet. The 3.75 inch white enamel dial with twice I to XII and twice 0-60 in five minute divisions, with matching gilt hands and an arrow-shaped centre seconds hand, set below a subsidiary dial to opt between strike and silence, both dials framed by foliate and shell C-scrolls. The twin gut fusee movement with shouldered plates united by five knopped pillars, both plates cast with the letter M (for Marriott?), the going train with knife-edge verge escapement, the strike train sounding the hours and quarters on a pair of bells and hammers mounted on the backplate. The backplate engraved with a central basket of flowers over the signature within a delicate floral scroll cartouche and flower sprays. 38cms (15ins) high
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Comparative literature:
An almost identical ormolu-mounted turtle shell case is illustrated in 'Clocks and Watches of the Qing Dynasty from the Collection in the Forbidden City', Foreign Languages Press, 2002, page 113.
Another by James Cox and Son is illustrated in Barder, R.C.R. (1993) The Georgian Bracket clocks 1714 – 1830. Suffolk: The Antique Collectors' Club, plate V/13.
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