Lot Essay
Arthur and Henry Rowley are recorded in Brian Loomes,Watch and clockmakers of the World, Vol.2, NAG, 1976, p. 203 as making clocks circa 1880 and having been established in 1808
A. & H. ROWLEY, LONDON, CIRCA 1900
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A LATE VICTORIAN MAHOGANY QUARTER-CHIMING LONGCASE CLOCK
a. & h. rowley, london, circa 1900
The break-arch gilt brass dial with rolling moon phase in the arch painted with a sailing ship and a cottage landscape, foliate spandrels to the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with levers to the sides for 8 bells strike 4 bells and strike/chime, signed at the base A. & H. Rowley, 40 The Obalds Rd., London, the matted center with subsidiary seconds ring and pierced blued steel hands, the movement with massive rectangular brass plates secured by four large pillars, the three trains with central going with anchor escapement and spring-suspended wood-rod pendulum, quarter strike on four or eight tubular brass bells hanging down the backboard, hour strike on further massive blued steel gong, the case with foliate pierced wood sound fret to the swan-neck pediment terminating with gilt-brass rosettes flanking a central ball-and-spire brass finial, detached brass-lined reeded Composite columns flanking the dial door, similar columns flanking the glazed breakarch trunk door, the double-footed plinth with raised hollow-cornered rectangular panel to the front and on ogee bracket feet
98in. (249cm.) high
a. & h. rowley, london, circa 1900
The break-arch gilt brass dial with rolling moon phase in the arch painted with a sailing ship and a cottage landscape, foliate spandrels to the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with levers to the sides for 8 bells strike 4 bells and strike/chime, signed at the base A. & H. Rowley, 40 The Obalds Rd., London, the matted center with subsidiary seconds ring and pierced blued steel hands, the movement with massive rectangular brass plates secured by four large pillars, the three trains with central going with anchor escapement and spring-suspended wood-rod pendulum, quarter strike on four or eight tubular brass bells hanging down the backboard, hour strike on further massive blued steel gong, the case with foliate pierced wood sound fret to the swan-neck pediment terminating with gilt-brass rosettes flanking a central ball-and-spire brass finial, detached brass-lined reeded Composite columns flanking the dial door, similar columns flanking the glazed breakarch trunk door, the double-footed plinth with raised hollow-cornered rectangular panel to the front and on ogee bracket feet
98in. (249cm.) high