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A Regency mahogany and brass-mounted striking eight day bracket clock on wall bracket

DESBOIS & WHEELER, LONDON, NO.128. CIRCA 1815

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A Regency mahogany and brass-mounted striking eight day bracket clock on wall bracket
Desbois & Wheeler, London, No.128. Circa 1815
The breakarch case with moulded cornice and waisted pediment, surmounted by five ball finials, with brass handles to the sides above 'Neo Grec' moulded volutes, bone escutcheons, with fielded panel to the front and raised on six brass ball feet, with chamfered brass bezel to convex glass for the white enamel Roman dial, signed DESBOIS & WHEELER/GRAY'S INN PASSAGE, blued steel hands, with strike/silent aperture above XII, the movement with shouldered plates joined by five pillars, twin line and fusees with anchor escapement, strike and trip repeat on bell, the back plate with engraved border and signed Desbois & Wheeler/London/128, with brass pendulum holdfast secured to the seatboard, the inside with PARKINSON & FRODSHAM label; on wall bracket with scroll support; pendulum with adjustable calibrated brass rod and engraved bob, winding key, two case keys
See p.83 for Illustration
The clock -- 20¼ in. (51 cm.) high, 29 in. (73.5 cm.) high over bracket

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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Richard C R Barder, The Georgian Bracket Clock 1714-1830, Woodbridge, 1993, p.190
Desbois & Wheeler were at Gray's Inn Passage 1790-1835.

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