Lot Essay
The regulator Dent, No.1 has an identical case to the present clock and it is illustrated in Vaudrey Mercer, Edward John Dent and his successors, A.H.S., 1977, pp. 58, pl. 11
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SAVORY, LONDON; CIRCA 1825
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A late Regency brass-inlaid mahogany and ebonised striking longcase regulator
Savory, London; circa 1825
The case in the gothic taste with ebony moulded panel to the skirted plinth beneath a gothic-arched glazed trunk door flanked by brass capped and fluted columns, the gothic-arched hood inlaid with quatrefoil roundel spandrels and with brass-inlaid ebony moulded spire finials, glazed gilt-brass bezel to the 12 in. diam. silvered regulator dial signed Savory Cornhill London, well formed blued steel hands, the movement with shouldered plates and five pillars, the going wheel-train with six crossings, Graham type deadbeat escapement and woodrod pendulum with calibrated silvered rating nut, the strike wheel-train with four crossings and rack strike on a bell with strike/silent lever above chapter 60 on the regulator dial
6ft. 8ins. (204 cm.) high
Savory, London; circa 1825
The case in the gothic taste with ebony moulded panel to the skirted plinth beneath a gothic-arched glazed trunk door flanked by brass capped and fluted columns, the gothic-arched hood inlaid with quatrefoil roundel spandrels and with brass-inlaid ebony moulded spire finials, glazed gilt-brass bezel to the 12 in. diam. silvered regulator dial signed Savory Cornhill London, well formed blued steel hands, the movement with shouldered plates and five pillars, the going wheel-train with six crossings, Graham type deadbeat escapement and woodrod pendulum with calibrated silvered rating nut, the strike wheel-train with four crossings and rack strike on a bell with strike/silent lever above chapter 60 on the regulator dial
6ft. 8ins. (204 cm.) high