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Lot Essay
A George Burgess is recorded working in Cheapside, London, in circa 1770.
Designed in the French picturesque style of the George III period, this acanthus-scrolled case with flower-festoons, gothic fret embossments and serpentined pediment surmounted by a Roman eagle, relates to patterns for 'Wall Clocks' published in Lock and Copland's A New Book of Ornaments, 1752, pl.12. It also corresponds to a clock by James Scholefield, illustrated in R. Edwards, Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, Andover, 1977, p. 235.
Closely related clocks were sold by Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Slazenger, Powerscourt, Co. Wicklow, Ireland, Christie's house sale, 24-25 September 1984, lot 415 and by The Executors of the Late Sir Philip Shelbourne, Myles Place, Salisbury, Wiltshire, 25-26 October 1993, lot 122.
Designed in the French picturesque style of the George III period, this acanthus-scrolled case with flower-festoons, gothic fret embossments and serpentined pediment surmounted by a Roman eagle, relates to patterns for 'Wall Clocks' published in Lock and Copland's A New Book of Ornaments, 1752, pl.12. It also corresponds to a clock by James Scholefield, illustrated in R. Edwards, Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, Andover, 1977, p. 235.
Closely related clocks were sold by Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Slazenger, Powerscourt, Co. Wicklow, Ireland, Christie's house sale, 24-25 September 1984, lot 415 and by The Executors of the Late Sir Philip Shelbourne, Myles Place, Salisbury, Wiltshire, 25-26 October 1993, lot 122.