THE DIAL SIGNED POINTER BAKER, LONDON, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY AND LATER

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A GEORGE III GILTWOOD CARTEL TIMEPIECE
THE DIAL SIGNED POINTER BAKER, LONDON, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY AND LATER
The case with ho-ho bird cresting and with rockwork frame, the 8¼ in. diameter silvered Roman and Arabic dial with mock pendulum aperture and signed Pointer Baker/London, blued steel later hands, the five pillar movement with tapering plates and secured with an iron cross-bar, single chain fusee and now with anchor escapement; case re-gilt, dial later and with associated movement; pendulum, key
34 in. (86.5 cm.) high x 19 in. (48 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

Related 'Wall Clock' patterns with scrolled pediments in the French 'picturesque' manner featured in Lock and Copland's New Book of Ornaments, 1752 (pl. 12) while Thomas Johnson's Collection of Designs, 1758 illustrated related bracket-clock patterns. The early 20th century collection formed by Mr. E.L. Rice contained a mural or 'cartel' clock of the present pattern, with a movement by the Strand clockmaker James Scholefield (fl. c. 1760) (P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1924, vol. II, p. 117, fig. 49). The Ludgate Hill clock-maker Pointer Baker was listed in the Clockmaker's Company from 1758-1778.

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