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FLADGATE, LONDON, CIRCA 1780
Details
A GEORGE III GILT-BRASS MOUNTED EBONISED WOOD EIGHT-DAY STRIKING TABLE CLOCK OF SMALL SIZE
FLADGATE, LONDON, CIRCA 1780
CASE: with handle and brass lined triple pad break arch top, with further brass lining overall and on bracket feet, DIAL: with white enamel chapter disk, lacking minute hand, with subsidiary 'strike/silent' above, gilt foliate cast spandrels, MOVEMENT: the five ring-turned pillar movement with rear-wound twin line fusees, now with anchor escapement, hour strike and trip repeat on bell, with foliate engraved shouldered backplate engraved 'Fladgate/London', with pendulum, no key
10½ in. (26.6 cm.) high, handle down, 7½ in. (19 cm.) wide; 5¼ in. (13.3 cm.) deep
FLADGATE, LONDON, CIRCA 1780
CASE: with handle and brass lined triple pad break arch top, with further brass lining overall and on bracket feet, DIAL: with white enamel chapter disk, lacking minute hand, with subsidiary 'strike/silent' above, gilt foliate cast spandrels, MOVEMENT: the five ring-turned pillar movement with rear-wound twin line fusees, now with anchor escapement, hour strike and trip repeat on bell, with foliate engraved shouldered backplate engraved 'Fladgate/London', with pendulum, no key
10½ in. (26.6 cm.) high, handle down, 7½ in. (19 cm.) wide; 5¼ in. (13.3 cm.) deep
Literature
Michael C. Davis, Scots Baronial: Mansions & Castle Restorations in the West of Scotland, Spendrift, 1996, p. 20, fig. 1.