A GEORGE IV GILT BRONZE-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID EBONY PEDESTAL CLOCK, the circular glazed dial with Roman and Arabic numerals and signed WILKINS Frith Street Soho London, within a Gothic ogee-arched frame inlaid with foliate sprays and centred by a quatrefoil, the pierced, stepped, crocketed pediment surmounted by stiff-leaf spreading finials, above a stepped spreading base and rectangular platform with husk-fruited foliate C-scroll feet and central turned ebonised support, the pedestal with dished apron above a central spreading support flanked by foliate-headed splayed supports, on a moulded rectangular plinth, the pendulum with scratchmarks 5251, the movement signed George Wilkins LONDON

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A GEORGE IV GILT BRONZE-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID EBONY PEDESTAL CLOCK, the circular glazed dial with Roman and Arabic numerals and signed WILKINS Frith Street Soho London, within a Gothic ogee-arched frame inlaid with foliate sprays and centred by a quatrefoil, the pierced, stepped, crocketed pediment surmounted by stiff-leaf spreading finials, above a stepped spreading base and rectangular platform with husk-fruited foliate C-scroll feet and central turned ebonised support, the pedestal with dished apron above a central spreading support flanked by foliate-headed splayed supports, on a moulded rectangular plinth, the pendulum with scratchmarks 5251, the movement signed George Wilkins LONDON
24¼in. (61.5cm.) wide; 76in. (193cm.) high; 14in. (36cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The English fashion of the 1820s for the 'Louis Quatorze' drawing-room style was reflected in a reveival of metal scroll marquetry in the style of A.C. Boulle (d.1732) and a number of specialist inlayers worked in London at that time.

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