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A very fine mid 18th century ormolu-mounted musical red-tortoiseshell veneered table clock Thomas Gardner, London 3
11 December 2019, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£30,000 - £50,000
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A very fine mid 18th century ormolu-mounted musical red-tortoiseshell veneered table clock
Thomas Gardner, London
The case veneered in particularly lively coloured shell, with brass bandings to the caddy top and applied with brass scroll mounts over outswept corners with foliate and floral scroll pilasters, the silk-backed side panels with elaborately pierced sound frets, on a plinth base raised on eight foliate scroll feet, the 5.75 inch arched dial offering a choice of six tunes over the shaped signature plaque and twin painted coastal scenes, the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring framed by scroll spandrels and with painted centre depicting crenelated buildings and apertures for date and mock pendulum, the triple gut fusee movement with verge escapement and rack strike for the hours on a single bell, the tunes played on a run of ten bells and 20 hammers via a six-inch pinned brass barrel running across the top of the signed and engraved backplate secured in the case via three engraved brass shaped brackets. Ticking, striking and playing.
47.5cms (18 1/2ins) high (3)
The case veneered in particularly lively coloured shell, with brass bandings to the caddy top and applied with brass scroll mounts over outswept corners with foliate and floral scroll pilasters, the silk-backed side panels with elaborately pierced sound frets, on a plinth base raised on eight foliate scroll feet, the 5.75 inch arched dial offering a choice of six tunes over the shaped signature plaque and twin painted coastal scenes, the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring framed by scroll spandrels and with painted centre depicting crenelated buildings and apertures for date and mock pendulum, the triple gut fusee movement with verge escapement and rack strike for the hours on a single bell, the tunes played on a run of ten bells and 20 hammers via a six-inch pinned brass barrel running across the top of the signed and engraved backplate secured in the case via three engraved brass shaped brackets. Ticking, striking and playing.
47.5cms (18 1/2ins) high (3)
Footnotes
Thomas Gardner was apprenticed in 1720 to Stephen Tracey for 7 years at a cost of £10 and is listed as working from 1740 until his death in 1770.
The tunes listed are:
'Fanny Blooming Fair', a ballad transcribed around 1750.
'Fair & Soft & Gay & Young'.
'Can Love Be Contrould'. From The Beggars Opera (1729), original lament Grim King of the Ghosts.
'At the Brow of a Hill', a lament first transcribed in 1745.
'Collin & Phebe'.
'A New Song'.
Provenance:
Anthony Woodburn, 2007.