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JOSEPH DUDDS, LONDON
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A George III mahogany balloon bracket clock with automata
Joseph Dudds, London
The waisted case mounted by five bronze urn finials on pedestals, gilt-metal handles to the sides with pierced mahogany sound frets, the gilt-metal hoof feet cast with foliage, the dial with silvered chapter ring and pierced gilt-metal hands, the centre painted with a romantic landscape with lovers in the foreground and a fountain in the centre with a pipe-playing boy standing atop with an automaton right arm (now lacking), another automaton spindle below (but now lacking the feature), the large diameter strike/silent ring below with a gilt-metal hand and painted in the centre with British ships of the line and the signature Jos. Dudds London, the five pillar movement with twin wire fusees and original verge escapement and bob pendulum, strike on bell, the automaton cage still intact behind the dial but now detached from the escapement, the similarly signed foliate engraved backplate mounted with the bell and with securing brackets to the case
22in. (56cm.) high
Joseph Dudds, London
The waisted case mounted by five bronze urn finials on pedestals, gilt-metal handles to the sides with pierced mahogany sound frets, the gilt-metal hoof feet cast with foliage, the dial with silvered chapter ring and pierced gilt-metal hands, the centre painted with a romantic landscape with lovers in the foreground and a fountain in the centre with a pipe-playing boy standing atop with an automaton right arm (now lacking), another automaton spindle below (but now lacking the feature), the large diameter strike/silent ring below with a gilt-metal hand and painted in the centre with British ships of the line and the signature Jos. Dudds London, the five pillar movement with twin wire fusees and original verge escapement and bob pendulum, strike on bell, the automaton cage still intact behind the dial but now detached from the escapement, the similarly signed foliate engraved backplate mounted with the bell and with securing brackets to the case
22in. (56cm.) high