A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED GRIOTTE MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK by Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy, the milled circular roman-chaptered dial in a serpent bezel, the movement signed Vulliamy London 518 and in a drum-shaped case surmounted by an eagle with outstretched wings and standing on a scroll, flanked by a pair of recumbent lions, on a stepped plinth base with a frieze of scrolling foliage centred by leaves

細節

A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED GRIOTTE MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK by Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy, the milled circular roman-chaptered dial in a serpent bezel, the movement signed Vulliamy London 518 and in a drum-shaped case surmounted by an eagle with outstretched wings and standing on a scroll, flanked by a pair of recumbent lions, on a stepped plinth base with a frieze of scrolling foliage centred by leaves
6in. (40.5cm.) wide; 12in. (30.5cm.) high; 4in. (10cm.) deep

來源

The late Dowager Lady Camoys, The Dower House, Stonor, Henley-on-Thames.

拍品專文

Part of the firm's records survive in the British Horological Institute Library (Ilbert Bequest). There is the Clock Book, which lists the firm's numbered clocks from No.296 to 496 covering the years from 1797 to 1806, as well as an early nineteenth century Day Book which records the visitors to the shop (A. Kelly. 'Vulliamys, Wedgwoods and Georgian Clocks', Proceedings of the Wedgwood Society, 1968, pp.152-163)

Two Small Black Lion Clocks by Vulliamy No.389 and No.352 were sold in these Rooms, 17 November 1988, lot 22 and 3 April 1989, lot 2 respectively. They both had more relaxed reclining lions and in the case of the latter the Clock Book records ...Noule casting & chasing the two lions ... #2/2s/- ...