A GEORGE III MAHOGANY LONGCASE CLOCK

WILLIAM DUTTON & SONS, LONDON

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY LONGCASE CLOCK
william dutton & sons, london
The shallow-arched silvered dial with Roman and Arabic chapter ring, elaborate pierced blued steel hands, the center with susidiary seconds ring and calendar aperture, strike/silent lever above 60, the signature engraved Willm. Dutton & Sons, London, the substantial five-pillar twin train movement with anchor escapement with steel rod pendulum and massive brass-faced bob with calibrated silvered rating nut below, rack strike on bell above, the case with shallow-arched hood, stop-chamfered reeded columns flanking the dial door with Dutton's ogee moulding, similarly arched trunk door, the plinth with raised rectangular panel to the double skirt on block feet
79¼in. (201.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

William Dutton, apprenticed in 1738 and made free of the clockmakers' Company in 1746. His apprenticeship to George Graham lead on to a fruitful partnership with Thomas Mudge, another of Graham's famous prodigies. Under the partnership William's sons Thomas and Matthew served their apprenticeships and in later years after Mudge's death in 1795 they joined their father as partners

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