AN EARLY VICTORIAN GILT-BRASS QUARTER-CHIMING GIANT EXHIBITION CARRIAGE CLOCK

EDWARD WHITE, LONDON, NO. 756, SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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AN EARLY VICTORIAN GILT-BRASS QUARTER-CHIMING GIANT EXHIBITION CARRIAGE CLOCK
edward white, london, no. 756, second quarter 19th century
The white enamel Roman chapter disc with recessed subsidiary seconds at XII, blued spade hands, signed E. White 20 Cockspur St., London within a fine engine-turned gilt mask, the five pillar twin chain fusee movement with large escapement platform with underslung lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensated balance with flat steel hairspring, the strike train operating on a pump-action hammer system with Cambridge quarter chime on four bells via four hammers with hour strike on a steel gong on the backplate with strike/silent lever and engraved E. White 20 Cockspur St., London. 756, the massive architectural case with out-set reeded columns with gadrooned and foliate trellis decoration and Corinthian capitals supporting a dentilled cornice and twin gadrooned urn finials, fine foliate-pierced and chased giltmetal sound frets to the sides within foliate-cast frames, the glazed cupula top with foliate cast frames supporting an eagle surmount, the solid rear door with shuttered holes for hand-set, winding, strike/silent and regulation
14¾in. (37½cm.) high

Provenance

Anon sale, Phillips, London, 1982, sold for £8,000

Literature

Derek Roberts, Carriage and other Travelling Clocks, Schiffer, 1993, p. 323, fig. 21-25
Tardy,La Pendule dans le Monde, Part 3, p. 456

Lot Essay

The present clock was almost certainly exhibited at the Great International London Exhibition in 1862.;
White, Edward, 20, Cockspur Street, Pall Mall, SW, - Chronometers, watches, clocks and gold chains;
PORTABLE CLOCKS
10. An eight-day lever clock chiming the quarters on four bells (Cambridge chimes) and striking the hours on bell-spring, in very handsome gilt metal case, with chased columns and figure on top. (Registered Design). (Appendix D - Official Illustrated Catalogue of the International Exhibition 1862, British Division, vol 1, class XV, Horological instruments, p. 82)

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