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A fine ormolu-mounted tortoiseshell and enamel Clock Case for the Ottoman Market by Markwick-Markham & Perigal London, circa 1770 image 1
A fine ormolu-mounted tortoiseshell and enamel Clock Case for the Ottoman Market by Markwick-Markham & Perigal London, circa 1770 image 2
A fine ormolu-mounted tortoiseshell and enamel Clock Case for the Ottoman Market by Markwick-Markham & Perigal London, circa 1770 image 3
Lot 63Y

A fine ormolu-mounted tortoiseshell and enamel Clock Case for the Ottoman Market by Markwick-Markham & Perigal
London, circa 1770

6 October 2015, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£20,000 - £30,000

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A fine ormolu-mounted tortoiseshell and enamel Clock Case for the Ottoman Market by Markwick-Markham & Perigal
London, circa 1770

rectangular with openwork domed element to top surmounted by urn, doors to each side mounted with ormolu panels decorated in openwork with floral and foliate sprays issuing from urns, the corners with ormolu pilasters surmounted by urns, the face decorated in polychrome enamel with floral sprays surrounding the main dial and subsidiary strike-silent and tune selection dials (disused), the main dial with Turkish numerals and signed MARKWICK MARKHAM and PERIGAL LONDON, hinged ormolu door to back decorated in openwork with lattice, later French movement with countwheel strike on bell
47 cm. high

Footnotes

For two similar clocks by Markwick-Markham & Perigal in the Dolmabahçe Palace, Istanbul, see Vahide Gezgor et al, Clocks in the National Palaces, Istanbul 1997, pp. 20-23, nos. 3 and 4.

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