A George III mahogany musical and automaton table clock, the case on foliate bracket feet, glazed sides flanked by Corinthian-capped brass-lined quarter columns, the inverted bell-top surmounted pineapple finials, the dial signed Daye Barker London on a shaped silvered sector within the matted centre, the calendar aperture with conforming florally painted arched aperture, silvered chapter-ring with pierced blued hands, foliate spandrels, subsidiary silvered rings for strike/not-strike and chime/not-chime, the arch above with painted automaton scene depicting a stone mason at work, a boy sawing at a block, a woman at a water pump and a boy operating a treadle stone, the silvered arc above engraved with twelve tunes with blued steel selection pointer, the massive eight pillar triple fusee movement with verge escapement, the music playing on 16 bells via 31 hammers and 13in. long transverse mounted pin barrel, hour strike on further bell on the plain backplate with pendulum holdfast

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A George III mahogany musical and automaton table clock, the case on foliate bracket feet, glazed sides flanked by Corinthian-capped brass-lined quarter columns, the inverted bell-top surmounted pineapple finials, the dial signed Daye Barker London on a shaped silvered sector within the matted centre, the calendar aperture with conforming florally painted arched aperture, silvered chapter-ring with pierced blued hands, foliate spandrels, subsidiary silvered rings for strike/not-strike and chime/not-chime, the arch above with painted automaton scene depicting a stone mason at work, a boy sawing at a block, a woman at a water pump and a boy operating a treadle stone, the silvered arc above engraved with twelve tunes with blued steel selection pointer, the massive eight pillar triple fusee movement with verge escapement, the music playing on 16 bells via 31 hammers and 13in. long transverse mounted pin barrel, hour strike on further bell on the plain backplate with pendulum holdfast
34¼in. (87cm.) high

Lot Essay

Daye Barker, b. 1747, was the son of the famous William Barker of Wigan, Lancashire who was well known for high quality astronomical clocks. Very little is known about Daye except that he moved down to London some time after his father's death circa 1786.

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