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A rare early 19th century gilt card stock and Dresden trim clock
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Germany, a rare early 19th century gilt card stock table clock, in the Empire style, on four polished brass ball feet and decorated with gilt, embossed papers and trims, and surmounted by an urn with cloth flowers, and 30 hour verge fusee movement with arabic numeral white enamel dial, the center with polychrome enamel scene, and signed "Girardier a L'aine"
A rare early 19th century gilt card stock and Dresden trim clock
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Germany, a rare early 19th century gilt card stock table clock, in the Empire style, on four polished brass ball feet and decorated with gilt, embossed papers and trims, and surmounted by an urn with cloth flowers, and 30 hour verge fusee movement with arabic numeral white enamel dial, the center with polychrome enamel scene, and signed "Girardier a L'aine"
A fine 19th century French gilt brass carriage clock
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A fine 19th century French gilt brass carriage clock with calendar in the manner of Abraham Louis Breguet
The Classically inspired case with folding bud handle and four bud finials on an engine turned ground over rosettes and reeded columns to a matching base on button feet, the white enamel dial with blue Roman numerals, minute track and blued steel trefoil hands over a subsidiary date dial within an engine turned mask, the movement with twin barrels driving a gilt platform with bimetallic balance to a lever escapement, the strike and repeat on a bell behind a shuttered rear panel. Together with an associated mid 19th century leather covered travel case and a double ended key. 16cms (6.25ins) high.
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This carriage clock is closely modelled on the early travel clocks by the great Abraham Louis Breguet. Comparable examples by Breguet were sold in these rooms 11 December 2019, lot 106 (Breguet number 2889, circa 1804), lot 107 (Breguet number 4248, circa 1837) and lot 109 (Breguet number 2963, circa 1820).
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A 19TH CENTURY DRESDEN-TYPE PORCELAIN CLOCK, with drum
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A 19TH CENTURY DRESDEN-TYPE PORCELAIN CLOCK, with drum movement held by two winged cupids, and encrusted with flowers. 18.5 inches high.
A rare early 18th century ebony table clock
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A rare early 18th century ebony table clock
Charles Goode, London
Surmounted by a bold 'Quare-style' double-S scroll handle on a caddy top over an intricately moulded cornice and two long glazed side panels to a moulded base and block feet, the front door with highly unusual ogee bolection-moulded frame. The rectangular dial measuring 7.75 ins x 7ins signed upper centre Charles Goode, LONDON over a strike/not strike lever framed by foliate and strapwork spandrels to the corners, the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with half-quarter marks and meeting-arrowhead half hour markers, the finely matted centre displaying the decorated mock pendulum aperture, conforming date aperture and ringed winding squares, with finely pierced original hands. The twin gut fusee movement (now wire) now converted to anchor escapement with internal rack strike on the bell, the plates united by five knopped and ringed pillars (the centre latched), the backplate boldly engraved with interlaced foliate scrolls centred by the repeat signature within a shaped foliate cartouche below a winged cherubs head. 43cms (17ins) high
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Another table clock by Goode with an ogee bolection-moulded door was sold Christies London, 'Magnificent Clocks', 15/9/2004, lot 21, with a quarter chiming movement, the hammer price was £30,000.
Charles Goode was a watchmaker who was made a Free Brother in the Clockmaker's Company in September 1686. He did not sign the 1697 oath roll of allegiance for any City Company. He died in 1730.
compare with others in DDP – the christies one was plates 580-583..
A rare mid 19th century skeleton clock by John Pac
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A rare mid 19th century skeleton clock by John Pace, Bury St. Edmunds, with musical movement. Having a fine gilt Arabic chapter ring framing blued steel spade hands and an exposed gut-driven movement with wheels of five crossings, raised on twin c-scroll supports to a brass oval base engraved “JOHN PACE Bury St Edmunds”, the brass base plate stamped several times beneath “PACE BURY ST EDMUNDS”, with cut-out and blued steel wavy connecting rod to a later gut-driven fusee musical movement by Reuge, St. Croix, with 2″ barrel and complete comb, playing a Brahms waltz and a Mozart serenade, Reuge label beneath, original red octagonal paper label within of John Pace, on ebonised base and brass ball feet, 13.75″, (35cm) high overall. Similar examples without musical movement were sold last year by Christie’s King Street, 17th March lot 121 and Bonhams New Bond Street, 13th December lot 64. Literature: see Derek Roberts, ‘British Skeleton Clocks’ (ACC, 1987), p.89 and F. B. Royer-Colllard, ‘Skeleton Clocks’ (NAG 1969), p.14.
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A RARE 19TH CENTURY EUROPEAN IVORY CLOCK, with column
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A RARE 19TH CENTURY EUROPEAN IVORY CLOCK, with column supports, and surmounted by a carved bust on platform base. 10.5 inches high.