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STEPHEN RIMBAULT, LONDON, CIRCA 1750
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A GEORGE II ORMOLU MOUNTED MAHOGANY MUSICAL BRACKET CLOCK
STEPHEN RIMBAULT, LONDON, CIRCA 1750
CASE: the domed top with cone finials, caryatids to the chamfered angles, loop handles above the glazed sides, glazed arched rear door, conforming bracket; DIAL: the arched dial with silvered chapter ring and pierced foliate spandrels, the engraved centre with date, day and month apertures, mock pendulum aperture and applied signature plaque 'Stepn. Rimbault / LONDON', blued steel hands, subsidiary setting dials above 'Toca / No Toca' and 'Toca Musica / No Toca', the arch with twelve position tune selection and moonphase with age of moon; MOVEMENT: the three-train gut fusee movement with verge escapement, twelve tunes on thirteen bells via twenty-five hammers, strike on a larger bell, striking the hour and playing a tune every hour and striking one at half past and playing a tune, with trip repeat for hour and trip repeat for music
25 ½ in. (64.8 cm.) high; 16 ½ in. (42 cm.) wide; 9 ¼ in. (23.5 cm.) deep, 37 in. (94 cm.) high overall
STEPHEN RIMBAULT, LONDON, CIRCA 1750
CASE: the domed top with cone finials, caryatids to the chamfered angles, loop handles above the glazed sides, glazed arched rear door, conforming bracket; DIAL: the arched dial with silvered chapter ring and pierced foliate spandrels, the engraved centre with date, day and month apertures, mock pendulum aperture and applied signature plaque 'Stepn. Rimbault / LONDON', blued steel hands, subsidiary setting dials above 'Toca / No Toca' and 'Toca Musica / No Toca', the arch with twelve position tune selection and moonphase with age of moon; MOVEMENT: the three-train gut fusee movement with verge escapement, twelve tunes on thirteen bells via twenty-five hammers, strike on a larger bell, striking the hour and playing a tune every hour and striking one at half past and playing a tune, with trip repeat for hour and trip repeat for music
25 ½ in. (64.8 cm.) high; 16 ½ in. (42 cm.) wide; 9 ¼ in. (23.5 cm.) deep, 37 in. (94 cm.) high overall
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