James Stratton
Director
Lot 64
A burr walnut veneered, quarter repeating and striking double basket top table clock with moonphase and age George Tyler, London
2 December 2025, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£2,500 - £3,500
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Lewis Walduck
Cataloguer
A burr walnut veneered, quarter repeating and striking double basket top table clock with moonphase and age
George Tyler, London
The case surmounted by a double basket top with pierced lacework panels interspersed by gadrooning, over glazed sides on cast bun feet (the case re-veneered and partially rebuilt, the basket top period). The 7 inch break-arch dial with three subsidiaries for Strike/Silent, rise and fall regulation and an astronomical dial giving the moons age and phase shown in a recessed 'penny moon', the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with fleur-de-lys half-hour markers and lozenge half-quarters, around a matted centre with decorated apertures for mock pendulum and date, with blued steel hands of typical form. The substantial plates united by six knopped pillars, twin gut fusees to a verge escapement with rise-and-fall regulation, striking the hours on a bell mounted above and quarter-repeating on a nest of four bells and hammers. The backplate profusely engraved with eagles, squirrels, masks, scrolls, and foliage, all within a wheat-ear border and signed to the centre in a cartouche George Tyler London. Ticking and striking, but in need of a service. 58cms (23ins) high.
The case surmounted by a double basket top with pierced lacework panels interspersed by gadrooning, over glazed sides on cast bun feet (the case re-veneered and partially rebuilt, the basket top period). The 7 inch break-arch dial with three subsidiaries for Strike/Silent, rise and fall regulation and an astronomical dial giving the moons age and phase shown in a recessed 'penny moon', the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with fleur-de-lys half-hour markers and lozenge half-quarters, around a matted centre with decorated apertures for mock pendulum and date, with blued steel hands of typical form. The substantial plates united by six knopped pillars, twin gut fusees to a verge escapement with rise-and-fall regulation, striking the hours on a bell mounted above and quarter-repeating on a nest of four bells and hammers. The backplate profusely engraved with eagles, squirrels, masks, scrolls, and foliage, all within a wheat-ear border and signed to the centre in a cartouche George Tyler London. Ticking and striking, but in need of a service. 58cms (23ins) high.
Footnotes
Provenance:
The Carl Barnes Collection.
Sotheby's London, Watches and Chronometers, 27th October 1983.
The inside of the case bears a printed label for The Royal Archaeological Society of Brussels, dated 1921–22.
Together with a collection of paperwork relating to work carried out to the case, dial and movement in the 1980s.