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A good late 18th century brass-mounted mahogany two-tune musical table clock John Taylor, London
16 December 2015, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £7,500 inc. premium
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A good late 18th century brass-mounted mahogany two-tune musical table clock
John Taylor, London
The caddy top with brass banding and finials over stop-fluted Doric quarter columns, side handles and elaborate cast and pierced side panels centred by cherubs heads, on a brass-framed base to scroll feet, the 7.75 inch arched brass dial signed in a recessed panel between subsidiary dials for 'Chime/not Chime' and tune selection of 'March' or 'Hornpipe', the solid silvered Roman and Arabic dial with concentric date hand framed by scroll spandrels, the large triple gut (now wire) fusee movement with verge escapement rack striking the hours on a bell and sounding the quarters and the hours on a run of eight bells and hammers 62cms (24ins) high
The caddy top with brass banding and finials over stop-fluted Doric quarter columns, side handles and elaborate cast and pierced side panels centred by cherubs heads, on a brass-framed base to scroll feet, the 7.75 inch arched brass dial signed in a recessed panel between subsidiary dials for 'Chime/not Chime' and tune selection of 'March' or 'Hornpipe', the solid silvered Roman and Arabic dial with concentric date hand framed by scroll spandrels, the large triple gut (now wire) fusee movement with verge escapement rack striking the hours on a bell and sounding the quarters and the hours on a run of eight bells and hammers 62cms (24ins) high