A highly individual late Victorian mahogany wall regulator and barometer en suite; circa 1880.

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Details

A highly individual late Victorian mahogany wall regulator and barometer en suite; circa 1880.
The clock in flame mahogany veneered glazed case with ogee moulding to rectangular plinth set with an ormolu mask with foliate spandrels and central silvered annular ring engraved with the signs of the zodiac, the trunk also with gilt mask set with foliate mounted accanthus pilasters flanking the pendulum aperture, architectural pediment, the 8in. sq. regulator-type dial signed Jump in the gilt sunken centre with eccentric silvered Roman hour ring with pierced blued steel hand, and outer Arabic minute ring with similar hand, the movement with high count train having four pillars and A-shaped plates, maintaining power and jewelled deadbeat escapement and unusual spring-suspended zinc-cased pendulum and large brass cased weight.
The similarly cased barometer with aneroid barometer in the base with silvered scale signed Ch. Mellier. & Co. London within an ormolu mask with foliate spandrels, the glazed trunk central aperture flanked by twin pilasters with foliate broken-arched top and applied with mercurial centrigrade thermometer and alchohol fahrenheit thermometer, the barometer dial above signed M. Pillishcher. London with blued steel arrow-head hand and silvered recording hand 42in. (106.5cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Bertram Currie, Minley Manor, and thence by descent

Lot Essay

Joseph Jump, appenticed to Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy in 1827 and on Vulliamy's death in 1854 continued on his own account in Bond Street, and later in Pall Mall until his death in 1899.
This most unusual wall combination was probably made to order for Bertram Currie. Jump supplied him with all his clocks for Minley Manor and his other houses in Richmond Terrace and at Coombe Warren.

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