A GEORGE III GILTWOOD BRACKET CLOCK, the circular glazed Roman and Arabic-chaptered white enamel dial with pierced blued hands and strike/silent lever above XII, the four-pillar twin-chain fusee movement with tic-tac escapement and strike-on-bell, the backplate signed John Raymond London, four further pillars supporting a gilt barrel movement cover, pull cords to the sides for trip strike repeat and spring-loaded pendulum activation, the bezel engraved with trailing foliage, in a gadrooned and beaded drum-shaped case standing on flattened scroll feet and an inverted breakfront plinth with fluted frieze and flowerhead-panelled angles, the case flanked by laurel-swagged two-handled urns, each with a pine cone finial, on a tapering acanthus bracket with spray boss

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A GEORGE III GILTWOOD BRACKET CLOCK, the circular glazed Roman and Arabic-chaptered white enamel dial with pierced blued hands and strike/silent lever above XII, the four-pillar twin-chain fusee movement with tic-tac escapement and strike-on-bell, the backplate signed John Raymond London, four further pillars supporting a gilt barrel movement cover, pull cords to the sides for trip strike repeat and spring-loaded pendulum activation, the bezel engraved with trailing foliage, in a gadrooned and beaded drum-shaped case standing on flattened scroll feet and an inverted breakfront plinth with fluted frieze and flowerhead-panelled angles, the case flanked by laurel-swagged two-handled urns, each with a pine cone finial, on a tapering acanthus bracket with spray boss
18in. (46cm.) wide; 23¾in. (60cm.) high, overall

Provenance

Bought from Mallett at the Antique Dealers' Fair, Grosvenor House, 1959, and invoiced on 10 June for #525

Lot Essay

In his Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 3rd. ed., London, 1763, pl. CLXIV, Thomas Chippendale illustrated a longcase clock design on which the upper part is of tête de poup©e form and which stands on flattened scroll feet of very similar type to this clock.
The acanthus-wrapped bracket features as a support for a vase in Robert & James Adam's Works in Architecture, London, 1773-8, vol. I., no. I, pl. VIII.
A related giltwood clock, supported by a pair of sphynxes standing on a plinth with fluted frieze, flowered tablets and scrolled feet, is in the Court Room of the Bank of England. Its movement is by Edward Tutet of Fenchurch Street (see: R.J. Woods, English Furniture in the Bank of England, London, privately printed, 1972, no. 38)

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