A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED MARBLE WEEKS' MUSEUM MANTEL CLOCK, the case on gadrooned toupie feet supporting a rectangular black marble stepped plinth inset with quatra-foliate cast ormolu mounts to the front and sides, the clock case flanked by reclining Muses reading books engraved Pemsoe Aux ilium (later right hand book), white marble reeded clock case on scrolled base and with flaming urn finial, milled and foliate cast bezel to the white enamel dial signed Weeks's Museum with gold painted Roman chapters, finely pierced gilt hands and blued steel counterpoised seconds hand, the four pillar chain fusee movement with deadbeat escapement planted on the plain backplate with original steel suspended foliate egraved wedge-shaped pendulum, on velvet lined ebonized wood base and with glass dome

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A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED MARBLE WEEKS' MUSEUM MANTEL CLOCK, the case on gadrooned toupie feet supporting a rectangular black marble stepped plinth inset with quatra-foliate cast ormolu mounts to the front and sides, the clock case flanked by reclining Muses reading books engraved Pemsoe Aux ilium (later right hand book), white marble reeded clock case on scrolled base and with flaming urn finial, milled and foliate cast bezel to the white enamel dial signed Weeks's Museum with gold painted Roman chapters, finely pierced gilt hands and blued steel counterpoised seconds hand, the four pillar chain fusee movement with deadbeat escapement planted on the plain backplate with original steel suspended foliate egraved wedge-shaped pendulum, on velvet lined ebonized wood base and with glass dome
12in. (30.5cm.) over finial

Lot Essay

The celebrated Haymarket emporium established by the clock-maker jeweller Thomas Weeks (1743-1834) was titled 'The Royal Mechanical Museum' from 1788. Weeks followed the fashion established by James Cox (d. 1788) and Henri Maillardet of the Swiss/French company of Jaquet Droz for exhibiting highly ornamental automaton clocks as part of London's great trade attractions

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