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A very fine and rare quarter chiming and repeating padouk table clock of small size Godfrey Poy, London
16 December 2015, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £31,250 inc. premium
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A very fine and rare quarter chiming and repeating padouk table clock of small size
Godfrey Poy, London
The inverted bell top with brass mouldings and five ball and spire finials over side handles and arched sound apertures protected by the original pierced and engraved sound frets depicting a floral urn amid scrolls and a wheatear border, the base further set with a wide brass band to ogee bracket feet, the 5 inch arched brass dial signed in a silvered boss over the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with lozenge half-quarter marks, the finely matted centre with chamfered date and mock pendulum apertures, the triple gut fusee movement with rectangular plates united by knopped and ringed pillars, with verge escapement on a knife edge, the brass rod terminating in an engraved octagonal rating nut numbered 1-8, rack striking the hour on a single bell and the quarters on a run of six bells and hammers, the backplate centred by an engraved basket of fruit framed by symmetrical foliate scrolls and a single line border, the side brackets and cock also engraved, with cord to the side to repeat the hours and quarters at will 41cms (16ins) high.
The inverted bell top with brass mouldings and five ball and spire finials over side handles and arched sound apertures protected by the original pierced and engraved sound frets depicting a floral urn amid scrolls and a wheatear border, the base further set with a wide brass band to ogee bracket feet, the 5 inch arched brass dial signed in a silvered boss over the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with lozenge half-quarter marks, the finely matted centre with chamfered date and mock pendulum apertures, the triple gut fusee movement with rectangular plates united by knopped and ringed pillars, with verge escapement on a knife edge, the brass rod terminating in an engraved octagonal rating nut numbered 1-8, rack striking the hour on a single bell and the quarters on a run of six bells and hammers, the backplate centred by an engraved basket of fruit framed by symmetrical foliate scrolls and a single line border, the side brackets and cock also engraved, with cord to the side to repeat the hours and quarters at will 41cms (16ins) high.
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Provenance:
Purchased from R.A. Lee, 12 July 1971. Lee bought it from Sotheby's 8 November 1968.
Godfrey Poy worked in at least three addresses in the centre of fashionable London from 1718 to 1753 which included Pall Mall 1742-47 and Haymarket in 1753. His work was sometimes exceptional - as in the current lot - Barder (The Georgian Bracket Clock, ACC 1993) illustrates "A very fine musical clock with an ebonised case, brass mounts and engraved brass sound frets. Circa 1740."