Ella Jerman-Riddell
Sale Coordinator
Lady Glenconner: My Life in Objects
Lot 98
A good and impressive mid-19th century Giant English hour striking and repeating carriage clock Barwise, London
19 November 2025, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£4,000 - £6,000
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Madeleine Cater
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Charlie Thomas
Group Head, Private Collections, Furniture & Works of Art, U.K
A good and impressive mid-19th century Giant English hour striking and repeating carriage clock
Barwise, London
The case surmounted by a double S-shaped carrying handle engraved with foliate detail, over a large bevelled glazed observation window with repeat button inset to the right and framed by foliate engraving, the sides with bevelled observation windows set between uprights engraved with acanthus leaves, all terminating in an engraved moulded base. The 4-inch silvered dial with black Roman numerals, the centre and borders engraved with scrolls and acanthus leaves, signed in a lower cartouche Barwise London, with cruciform blued steel hands and framed by a silvered and engraved sight ring. The double chain fusee movement accessed through a solid back door with shuttered winding squares, with maintaining power and jewelled English lever platform escapement, striking the hours on a blued steel gong stamped 'JD', governed by a rack and snail mechanism. Currently ticking and striking, though a full overhaul is recommended for reliable use. Sold together with a winding key. 27cms (10.75ins) high.
The case surmounted by a double S-shaped carrying handle engraved with foliate detail, over a large bevelled glazed observation window with repeat button inset to the right and framed by foliate engraving, the sides with bevelled observation windows set between uprights engraved with acanthus leaves, all terminating in an engraved moulded base. The 4-inch silvered dial with black Roman numerals, the centre and borders engraved with scrolls and acanthus leaves, signed in a lower cartouche Barwise London, with cruciform blued steel hands and framed by a silvered and engraved sight ring. The double chain fusee movement accessed through a solid back door with shuttered winding squares, with maintaining power and jewelled English lever platform escapement, striking the hours on a blued steel gong stamped 'JD', governed by a rack and snail mechanism. Currently ticking and striking, though a full overhaul is recommended for reliable use. Sold together with a winding key. 27cms (10.75ins) high.
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Provenance
Given to Lady Anne Coke and the Hon Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner as a wedding present from Lady Glenconner's New Zealand Great Aunt, Sydney Muir who was married to Rowland Huntly Muir.