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A fine late 18th century mahogany architectural domestic regulator with deadbeat escapement and wooden rod pendulum. Vuillamy, London, no. 255
11 December 2019, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £22,562.50 inc. premium
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A fine late 18th century mahogany architectural domestic regulator with deadbeat escapement and wooden rod pendulum.
Vuillamy, London, no. 255
The hood with triangular pediment on stop-fluted canted front angles, the long door with flame veneer and moulded edge flanked by matching canted corners, on a panelled base with double apron, the 12 inch one-piece silvered Roman and Arabic dial with subsidiary seconds and date aperture, signed in the centre Vulliamy, London, Number 255, the weight driven movement with substantial plates united by heavy knopped pillars, the deadbeat escapement with separate steel pallet pads set into the morticed brass pallet frame, the pendulum with lozenge-section gilt wood rod terminating in a heavy brass lenticular bob, with a pair of brass weights. 2.12m (6ft 11.5ins) high
The hood with triangular pediment on stop-fluted canted front angles, the long door with flame veneer and moulded edge flanked by matching canted corners, on a panelled base with double apron, the 12 inch one-piece silvered Roman and Arabic dial with subsidiary seconds and date aperture, signed in the centre Vulliamy, London, Number 255, the weight driven movement with substantial plates united by heavy knopped pillars, the deadbeat escapement with separate steel pallet pads set into the morticed brass pallet frame, the pendulum with lozenge-section gilt wood rod terminating in a heavy brass lenticular bob, with a pair of brass weights. 2.12m (6ft 11.5ins) high
Footnotes
Another regulator by Vulliamy, number 220, with similar detachable pallet pads was sold in these rooms 9th December 2008, lot 125.