.jpg?w=1)
.jpg?w=1)
.jpg?w=1)
.jpg?w=1)
Lot Essay
Eardley Norton of 49 St. John Street, Clerkenwell, London was first recorded in 1762 he was registered in the Clockmakers' Company 1770-1792. A fine maker, Norton is particularly famous for his musical and astronomical clocks. A superb four-dial astronomical clock by him is in the British Royal Collection. His business was taken over on his death by Gravell and Tolkien.
A similar clock was sold Christie's, London, Important Clocks and Marine Chronometers Including a Fine Collection of Industrial, Automaton and Astronomical Clocks, 4 July 2007, Lot 156.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Richard C.R. Barder, The Georgian Bracket Clock 1714-1830, Antique Collectors Club, 1993, dust jacket cover and p.110, a musical table clock of very closely related design, number 1087; Arthur W.J.G. Ord-Hume, The Musical Clock, Mayfield Books, 1995, p.315, pl.XIII/13.
A similar clock was sold Christie's, London, Important Clocks and Marine Chronometers Including a Fine Collection of Industrial, Automaton and Astronomical Clocks, 4 July 2007, Lot 156.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Richard C.R. Barder, The Georgian Bracket Clock 1714-1830, Antique Collectors Club, 1993, dust jacket cover and p.110, a musical table clock of very closely related design, number 1087; Arthur W.J.G. Ord-Hume, The Musical Clock, Mayfield Books, 1995, p.315, pl.XIII/13.