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Le Ore (Italy) Art Inlay Clock, after 17th c. Design
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A Le Ore (Italy) handmade "Art Inlay Clock" based on a 17th century design by Giovanni Battista Foggini and Bathasar Permoser. Italian, late 20th century. Outfitted with a Franz Hermle movement and 24k gold-plated brass mounts, including a figural Father Time top finial.
Constructed a deux corps, with a top clock compartment and a bottom cabinet with single drawer. The cabinet interior is lined in silk brocade. High-gloss ebonized finish. Altogether, the clock with cabinet measures 81" x 31" x 17".
A late 17th century ebony basket top table clock with
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A late 17th century ebony basket top table clock with twin subsidiaries Signed behind the mock pendulum aperture
William Webster London
Repousse basket top with knopped bud handle over four unusual finials and an intricately moulded cornice, rectangular glazed side panels to a moulded plinth and brass button feet, both doors with applied repousse mounts, the 6.75 inch square brass dial with twin subsidiaries for strike/silent and rise-and-fall regulation in the upper corners, the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with meeting-arrowhead half-quarter marks, finely matted centre with ringed winding squares and decorated mock pendulum (revealing the signature) and date apertures, the twin gut fusee movement with verge escapement with rise and fall pendulum mounted on an engraved curved arm terminating in a rack and pinion, with lenticular bob, the strike train with internal rack sounding on the bell, with pull quarter repeat on three bells and hammers. Running, striking and repeating. Together with a door key (which operates both locks) and a later winding key. 40cms (16ins) high.
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A late 17th century walnut marquetry longcase clock
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A late 17th century walnut marquetry longcase clock with bolt and shutter maintaining power, previously in the Wetherfield Collection
Christopher Gould
Surmounted by a (later?) carved cresting of two cherubs heads over a pair of wings and scrolls, with twist columns and an inlaid front door, the trunk with three panels of bird and flower inlay on a matching panel base raised on bun feet, the 10.5ins square brass dial with engraved wheatear border framing the large winged cherubs head spandrels, Roman and Arabic chapter ring (with half-quarter marks), finely matted centre with subsidiary seconds, ringed winding squares, chamfered decorated date aperture and engraved foliate boss to the centre, with fine blued steel hands, the movement with five knopped and ringed pillars, bolt and shutter maintaining power to an anchor escapement, with outside countwheel strike on a bell, the backplate with shaped aperture for the pallet arbor 2.1m (6ft 11ins) high.
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Provenance:
The Wetherfield Collection in the early 20th century.
Literature:
Illustrated on the front cover Bruton, E. (1981) The Wetherfield Collection of Clocks a Guide to Dating English Antique Clocks. London: N.A.G. Press Ltd. Illustrated and described page 146, plate 100.
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A late 17th century ebony basket topped table clock
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A late 17th century ebony basket topped table clock with pull quarter repeat
John Bushman, London
Surmounted by an elaborate figural handle over a pierced basket top centred by a medallion of George and the Dragon flanked by supporters, the sides with similar portrait medallions, over a moulded cornice and repousse framed side windows, to a moulded base and claw feet, the 7 inch square brass dial with winged cherub spandrels framing the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring, with strike/silent lever above XII, the finely matted centre with chamfered mock pendulum and date apertures, ringed winding squares and fettled blued steel hands, the twin chain fusee movement united by five distinctive delicate baluster pillars, the going train with knife edge verge escapement on an elaborate engraved back cock, with rack strike on a bell and pull repeating the quarters on three small vertical bells and hammers, the backplate with outside set up ratchets and clicks, engraved with symmetrical foliate scrolls and central signature cartouche. Ticking, striking and repeating. Together with a large brass associated winding key and case key. 42cms (16 1/2ins) high (3)
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John Bushman or Bushmann was a German watch and clock maker born in 1661 in Hagen. He moved to London by 1690 and became a member of the London Clockmakers' Company two years later in 1692. He died in 1722.
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Neo-Classicism Clock with Allegory of the Hunt, Italy,
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Bronze, fire gilded, brass, glass, metal
Italy, c. 1800
Round brass movement, spring driven, lever escapement
Half-hour strike on bell, string suspension
White enamel chapter ring with Roman hour-markers, outer minute ring with Arabic minutes, skeletonized center and pierced star motif
On a molded base the figural allegory of the hunt with a young man leaning against a tree trunk and carrying a lamb, at his feet a dog, a quiver and a bow
Overall dimensions: 66 x 40 x 20 cm
The fire-gilded table clock shows a large amount of finely rendered details
Estimate by Auctionata Expert: 12,000 Euro
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The clock is in a very good condition. In places the gilding is minimally rubbed. The pendulum is missing. The neck of the lamb shows a production related crack. On the back of the young man, several holes for mounting can be seen, presumably an application is missing here. The chapter ring has a chip in the upper part. During in house testing, the timepiece was fully functional; no guarantee on long term precision and regularity. The overall dimensions measure 66 x 40 x 20 cm.
Antique Ansonia Enameled Iron Case “Italy” Shelf Clock
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17th C. Thos. Loomes Brass Lantern Clock
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17th C. Thos. Loomes Brass Lantern Clock. 6.5 in. silvered dial signed ÂThomas Loomes at the Mermaid in LothburyÂ, has black Roman hour numerals, center silvered alarm indicator disc and engraved filigree on the brass back-plate, original steel hour hand (clock was designed without a minute hand); brass weight driven movement has an old recoil escapement, typically replacing the original primitive verge & crown wheel escapement with a modified pendulum crutch & bridge, has an half hour strike on a 5.25 in. iron bell exposed in the top dome of the case, conical iron weights and long steel pendulum rod with brass covered bob. In a beautiful brass case with pierced filigree gallery top, strapped dome with turned finial, turned corner columns and turned feet with brass plate, dust covers on the sides. On a carved wood wall bracket, clock is missing its chains and weight pulleys. 15.5 in. high.