A GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED SATINWOOD AND EBONIZED MANTEL CLOCK

CIRCA 1790, SIGNED BY WEEKS

Details

A GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED SATINWOOD AND EBONIZED MANTEL CLOCK
Circa 1790, signed by Weeks
The tapering case with urn finial issuing floral sprays, on bracket feet, the circular white enamel dial with Roman and Arabic numerals signed WEEKS COVENTRY STREET LONDON, the single chain fusee movement with Week's deadbeat escapement mounted on the florally engraved backplate, the typical steel spring suspended pendulum with a foliate engraved wedge-shaped bob
15in. (38cm.) high

Lot Essay

Thomas Weeks (d.1834) established a 'museum' selling clocks and mechanical objects in Tichborne Street (now Titchborne Row) in London in about 1797. Among the different types of objects that he retailed were the group of satinwood secretaire-cabinets with clocks in their crestings that are now thought to have been made for Weeks by the cabinet-maker George Simson.
An almost identical clock, also signed by Weeks, is illustrated in R.W. Symonds, Furniture-Making in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century England, 1955, p. 228, fig. 359, and another was sold Christie's London, 10 April 1986, lot 18.