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An early Victorian gilt-brass Cambridge quarter-chiming giant exhibition carriage clock

EDWARD WHITE, LONDON, NO. 756. CIRCA 1840

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An early Victorian gilt-brass Cambridge quarter-chiming giant exhibition carriage clock
Edward White, London, No. 756. Circa 1840
The white enamel Roman chapter disc with recessed subsidiary seconds at XII, blued spade hands, signed E. White 20 Cockspur St., London within a fine engine-turned gilt mask, the five pillar twin chain fusee movement with large escapement platform with underslung lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensated balance with flat steel hairspring, the strike train operating on a pump-action hammer system with Cambridge quarter chime on four bells via four hammers with hour strike on a steel gong on the backplate with strike/silent lever and engraved E. White 20 Cockspur St., London. 756, the massive architectural case with out-set reeded columns with gadrooned and foliate trellis decoration and Corinthian capitals supporting a dentilled cornice and twin gadrooned urn finials, fine foliate-pierced and chased gilt-metal sound frets to the sides within foliate-cast frames, the glazed cupola top with foliate cast frames supporting an eagle surmount, the solid rear door with shuttered holes for hand-set, winding, strike/silent and regulation
14¾ in. (37½ cm.) high

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Phillips, London, 1982
The Vitale Collection of Highly Important European Clocks, Part II, sold Christie's, London, 26 November 1996, lot 210

Literature

Derek Roberts, Carriage and other Travelling Clocks, Schiffer, 1993, p. 323, fig. 21-25
Tardy, La Pendule dans le Monde, Part 3, p. 456

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Lot Essay

This clock was almost certainly exhibited at the Great International London Exhibition in 1862.;
White, Edward, 20, Cockspur Street, Pall Mall, SW, - Chronometers, watches, clocks and gold chains;
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10. An eight-day lever clock chiming the quarters on four bells (Cambridge chimes) and striking the hours on bell-spring, in very handsome gilt metal case, with chased columns and figure on top. (Registered Design). (Appendix D - Official Illustrated Catalogue of the International Exhibition 1862, British Division, vol 1, class XV, Horological instruments, p. 82)

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