A VICTORIAN MALACHITE-MOUNTED ENGRAVED GILT-BRASS TURN-TABLE TRIPOD CLOCK
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VA… 顯示更多 THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN The present clock and its close relation, lot 64, are the most exciting examples of Cole's work to be discovered for many years. Innovative in design and of exceptional quality, these two clocks represent the quintessential style of Thomas Cole. The quality of the engraving, the fine hands, the use of malachite inlays, the ingenious yet practical design and the Egyptian influences all combine to form an eye-catching tour de force.
A VICTORIAN MALACHITE-MOUNTED ENGRAVED GILT-BRASS TURN-TABLE TRIPOD CLOCK

THOMAS COLE, NO. 1884; RETAILED BY HUNT & ROSKELL, LONDON; 3RD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A VICTORIAN MALACHITE-MOUNTED ENGRAVED GILT-BRASS TURN-TABLE TRIPOD CLOCK
Thomas Cole, No. 1884; Retailed by Hunt & Roskell, London; 3rd quarter 19th Century
The case formed as an occasional table with an articulated and rotating top with foliate engraved pie-crust rim set with malachite panels within gilt frames, glazed beaded and concave-moulded frame to the silvered dial signed by the retailer Hunt & Roskell, London above the painted Roman chapter ring with blued steel quattrefoil hands, the centre finely engraved with foliage and flowerheads on a hatched ground, the movement with twin going barrels within individual shaped brass plates, the 8-day going train with vertically mounted platform lever escapement with flat hairspring to cut bimetallic compensated balance, the strike train with hour strike on a blued steel gong of square section shaped to curve around the movement, the front plate stamped 1884, the gilt movement cover also stamped 1884 to the base and with winding squares for the two trains and aperture for hand-set and shuttered aperture for access to the escapement, slender tripod stand with foliate engraved legs terminating with a stepped base adorned with three gilt-brass sphinx on stepped and border-engraved pedestals
37½ in. (95 cm.) (dial up); 28½ in. (73 cm.) (dial flat)
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