Lot Essay
It is interesting to note that when this clock was sold in these rooms in July 1977 for £5,500 pounds in the same sale an ebonised Tompion & Banger bracket clock, No. 467, sold for £7,000 pounds.
LUND & BLOCKLEY; FOURTH QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Details
A Victorian gilt-metal quarter striking giant travelling clock
Lund & Blockley; fourth quarter 19th Century
The case of heavy architectural form with reeded composite triple-cluster columns to the angles supported on rectangular plinths at the stepped acanthus moulded base, rosette mounts to the dentilled freize supporting four ball-and-spire finials surmounting the out-set columns and framing the glass bubble top applied with a foliate pierced and engraved mount, the silvered dial signed Lund & Blockley to the Queen, 40 Pall Mall London, Roman chapters with blued steel hands, subsidiary recessed seconds ring at XII, foliate pierced and engraved gilt mask, the large five pillar twin chain fusee movement with gilt platform lever escapement with large diameter cut bimetallic compensated balance, quarter strike on two blued steel gongs of rectangular section to the backplate; with a mahogany travelling box with original green baize lining, the hinged front door with sliding viewing portal.
10½ ins (26.5 cm) high (2)
Lund & Blockley; fourth quarter 19th Century
The case of heavy architectural form with reeded composite triple-cluster columns to the angles supported on rectangular plinths at the stepped acanthus moulded base, rosette mounts to the dentilled freize supporting four ball-and-spire finials surmounting the out-set columns and framing the glass bubble top applied with a foliate pierced and engraved mount, the silvered dial signed Lund & Blockley to the Queen, 40 Pall Mall London, Roman chapters with blued steel hands, subsidiary recessed seconds ring at XII, foliate pierced and engraved gilt mask, the large five pillar twin chain fusee movement with gilt platform lever escapement with large diameter cut bimetallic compensated balance, quarter strike on two blued steel gongs of rectangular section to the backplate; with a mahogany travelling box with original green baize lining, the hinged front door with sliding viewing portal.
10½ ins (26.5 cm) high (2)
Provenance
Sold in these rooms, 20 July 1977, Lot 51
Literature
Charles Allix & Peter Bonner, Carriage Clocks, Woodbridge 1974, plate 1X/60
Joesph Fanelli, A Century of Fine Carriage Clocks, New York, 1987, pp 182-3
Joesph Fanelli, A Century of Fine Carriage Clocks, New York, 1987, pp 182-3