BY THOMAS WEEKS

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A REGENCY RED AND GILT-JAPANNED MANTEL TIMEPIECE
By Thomas Weeks
The white enamel dial with Roman and Arabic chapters with pierced gilt metal hour and minute hands, counterbalanced sweep centre seconds hand, the four pillar single gut fusee movement with the deadbeat escapement mounted on the foliate-engraved backplate, the brass pendulum with typical wedge-shaped foliate-engraved bob, the bronze movement case surmounted by an urn garlanded with an intertwining floral mount, the pedestal case of moulded concave form decorated with gilt lacquer framed by red painted line borders, the small brass bracket feet with adjustable turnscrews
15¼ in. (39 cm.) high; 6¾ in. (17 cm.) wide; 4½ in. (11.5 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

Thomas Weeks established a renowned museum of mechanical curiosities at 3 & 4 Titchbourne Street, London, in about 1797. Ingenious clocks, self-playing organs, toys, animated spiders and birds of paradise are recorded as forming part of Weeks' collection, which was sold off by auction in 1834 following his death. His premises also included an adjoining shop, where it is presumed that pieces such as this clock, signed by Weeks, were offered for sale (C. Gilbert, 'Some Weeks Cabinets Reconsidered', The Connoisseur, May 1971, pp. 13-18).

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