BY JOHN ELLICOTT, CIRCA 1760, WITH LATER BRACKET

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A GEORGE III BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY STRIKING BRACKET CLOCK
BY JOHN ELLICOTT, CIRCA 1760, WITH LATER BRACKET
The circular white enamel Roman and Arabic dial with blued steel hands, pendulum regulation disc to the center with adjustment square below, the twin chain fusee movement with half deadbeat escapement and strike on bell, the plates with canted angles and joined by five pillars, signed on the backplate Ellicott/LONDON, the third wheel secured inside the backplate with a brass bridge, with later movement securing brackets; within a rectangular case with circular panelled glazed door, with an inverted bell top surmounted by a flaming urn finial, all on brass feet, above a later waisted stepped bracket
29¾ in. (75.5 cm.) high, 10¾ in. (27 cm.) wide, 7½ in. (19 cm.) deep

Provenance

with Vitale & Vitale, New Jersey, 1992.

Lot Essay

John Ellicott (1706-1772) introduced this elegant case style, whereby the door exposes only the circular area that tells the time, in circa 1755 however this earlier example employs an applied chapter ring. A closely related example by Ellicott with one-piece brass dial and filigree spandrels is illustrated in R.C.R. Barder, The Georgian Bracket Clock: 1714-1830, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1993, pp. 86, pl. IV/2.

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