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A rare dated 18th century mahogany musical table clock playing six tunes on 12 bells and 24 hammers and with rocking Harlequin figure Francis Dorrell, London
11 December 2019, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £13,812.50 inc. premium
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A rare dated 18th century mahogany musical table clock playing six tunes on 12 bells and 24 hammers and with rocking Harlequin figure
Francis Dorrell, London
The bell topped case with five cone finials and dated central mount signed 'Louise y Yolave Munchausen 1778' with a Coat of Arms, over side handles, term mounts to the canted angles and a plinth base on bold scroll feet, the 9 inch arched brass dial with six-tune selection sector offering a choice of:
God Save the King
Minuet
March in Scipio
An Air
Minuet
Gavot
framing subsidiary dials for strike/not strike and chime/not chime, with the rocking figure of harlequin, painted in colours against a background of other 'Comedia del Arte', silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring framing the matted centre with rare shaped recessed signature plaques, and good steel hands, the substantial triple gut fusee movement with verge escapement and rack strike for the hour on a single bell mounted to the backplate (bell stand replaced), the music played every hour on 12 graduated bells and 24 hammers activated by an 8 inch pinned brass cylinder mounted across the top of the shaped shouldered plates, unusually driven by a cluster of three gears driven by the second wheel of the third main driving train, secured to the case with four L-shaped brackets, the backplate engraved with a Gothick bridge within open foliate scrollwork. Ticking, striking and playing music. Together with a (later) crank winding key, two case keys and pendulum.
68cm (26 1/2ins) high
The bell topped case with five cone finials and dated central mount signed 'Louise y Yolave Munchausen 1778' with a Coat of Arms, over side handles, term mounts to the canted angles and a plinth base on bold scroll feet, the 9 inch arched brass dial with six-tune selection sector offering a choice of:
God Save the King
Minuet
March in Scipio
An Air
Minuet
Gavot
framing subsidiary dials for strike/not strike and chime/not chime, with the rocking figure of harlequin, painted in colours against a background of other 'Comedia del Arte', silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring framing the matted centre with rare shaped recessed signature plaques, and good steel hands, the substantial triple gut fusee movement with verge escapement and rack strike for the hour on a single bell mounted to the backplate (bell stand replaced), the music played every hour on 12 graduated bells and 24 hammers activated by an 8 inch pinned brass cylinder mounted across the top of the shaped shouldered plates, unusually driven by a cluster of three gears driven by the second wheel of the third main driving train, secured to the case with four L-shaped brackets, the backplate engraved with a Gothick bridge within open foliate scrollwork. Ticking, striking and playing music. Together with a (later) crank winding key, two case keys and pendulum.
68cm (26 1/2ins) high
Footnotes
March In Scipio is from George Frideric Handel's opera Scipione composed in 1719 and first produced in 1726. It soon become a popular march tune, and is still the Regimental Slow March of the British Grenadier Guards.