Lot 149
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A GEORGE II GREEN AND GILT-JAPANNED BRACKET CLOCK
A GEORGE II GREEN AND GILT-JAPANNED BRACKET CLOCK

BY J. LERAIX & SON, CIRCA 1740

Details
A GEORGE II GREEN AND GILT-JAPANNED BRACKET CLOCK
By J. Leraix & Son, Circa 1740
The silvered circular chapter ring centering a calendar and false pendulum aperture below a silent/strike dial, with blued steel hands (later minute hand) within gilt-scrolled spandrels, the twin fusee movement with ater anchor escapement striking the hour on a bell and with foliate-engraved backplate, the stepped caddy hood with vasiform finials above an arched case with scroll-pierced frieze above an arched glazed door flanked by foliate and shell-carved angles, the sides with brass carrying handles, on a stepped molded base with bracket feet, decorated overall with pavilions, chinoiserie figures and foliate sprays,
30in. (78cm.) high

Lot Essay

A clock case of this precise form and decoration with musical movement by John Hodges (c.1735) is in the collection at Temple Newsam House, Leeds and is illustrated in C.Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, Leeds, 1978, vol.I, p.162, no.204. Another is illustrated in R.Edwards, ed., The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1974, p.235, fig.28.