A Victorian ormolu-mounted rosewood wall regulator of exhibition quality

CHARLES FRODSHAM, 84 STRAND, LONDON. NO. 983; CIRCA 1860

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A Victorian ormolu-mounted rosewood wall regulator of exhibition quality
Charles Frodsham, 84 Strand, London. No. 983; circa 1860
The arched dial of regulator format entirely gilded and spectacularly engraved with scrolling foliage and flower heads in high relief, blued steel hands, signed in a hollow-cornered rectangular reserve Chas. Frodsham. 84 Strand. London. No. 983., flanked by identical Royal appointment garters and with Frodsham's gold medal of honour for the Paris exhibition of 1855 below, the movement with thick brass arched rectangular plates with massive double-screwed pillars, all wheels with six crossings, Harrison's maintianing power, jewelled endcaps to the 'scape wheel and anchor pivots, Vulliamy jewelled deadbeat escapement, the pendulum with mercury glass jar having foliate engraved stoppers and gilt shoulder with a steel pointer to the calibration nut, the movement suspended on a massive brass bracket secured to the top of the back board, the arched hood with a ribbon-tied foliate ormolu mount above the gilt-brass framed door, similarly framed glazed sides, heavy ormolu foliate mounts to the mouldings above the main trunk with gilt-brass fillets to the glazed sides and front door, the domed base applied with a foliate ormolu mount to the front and terminating with a foliate cast drop finial
61 ins (155 cm) high

拍品專文

In 1857 the title Arnold & Frodsham was changed to just Charles Frodsham. The numbering of his clocks is a somewhat murky area however number 983 probably indicates a date tantalisingly close to the 1862 Great International Exhibition.
Two other wall clocks by Frodsham with similar exhibition qualities have been recently sold; No. 1720 was sold in these rooms, as lot 290 on 30 June 1993 and then Frodsham No. 1310 was also sold in these rooms from the Vitale Collection of highly Important European clocks, 26 November 1996, lot 262.