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THOMAS WOOD, TONBRIDGE WELLS
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A George III mahogany and ormolu-mounted musical automaton bracket clock
Thomas Wood, Tonbridge Wells
The case with bell top surmounted by a gilt-brass handle and flanked by four gilt-brass ball finials, gilt-metal trailing flower caryatides to the front angles, finely pierced and chased gilt-metal quarter frets to the front door, gilt-brass fillets to the glazed sides, the moulded base on gilt-brass bracket feet, the dial signed Thos. Wood Tonbridge Wells in the silvered chapter disc with Roman and Arabic chapters and inner annular calendar ring with gilt-brass hand, finely pierced blued steel hour and minute hands, foliate spandrels, subsidiary silvered rings for Chime/Not Chime and tune selection; SONG DANCE GAVOT AIR SONG GAVOT, the arch painted with seven automated musicians playing the french horn, trumpet, drum, cello, violin and guitar, within a rustic landscape with a windmill in the background with automated sails, the massive six pillar movement with triple chain fusees, original verge escapement with spring-suspended pendulum, the music playing on twelve bells via as many hammers and 8cm. long pin barrel, hour strike on a further bell, musical trip repeat cords on either side, the backplate profusely engraved with foliate scrolls and centered by a basket of flowers, signed Thos. Wood Tunbridge Wells in a foliate cartouche
19¼in. (49cm.) high
Thomas Wood, Tonbridge Wells
The case with bell top surmounted by a gilt-brass handle and flanked by four gilt-brass ball finials, gilt-metal trailing flower caryatides to the front angles, finely pierced and chased gilt-metal quarter frets to the front door, gilt-brass fillets to the glazed sides, the moulded base on gilt-brass bracket feet, the dial signed Thos. Wood Tonbridge Wells in the silvered chapter disc with Roman and Arabic chapters and inner annular calendar ring with gilt-brass hand, finely pierced blued steel hour and minute hands, foliate spandrels, subsidiary silvered rings for Chime/Not Chime and tune selection; SONG DANCE GAVOT AIR SONG GAVOT, the arch painted with seven automated musicians playing the french horn, trumpet, drum, cello, violin and guitar, within a rustic landscape with a windmill in the background with automated sails, the massive six pillar movement with triple chain fusees, original verge escapement with spring-suspended pendulum, the music playing on twelve bells via as many hammers and 8cm. long pin barrel, hour strike on a further bell, musical trip repeat cords on either side, the backplate profusely engraved with foliate scrolls and centered by a basket of flowers, signed Thos. Wood Tunbridge Wells in a foliate cartouche
19¼in. (49cm.) high