拍品 129
129
A RARE VICTORIAN BRASS TIMEPIECE SKELETON CLOCK OF YEAR DURATION
A PRIVATE COLLECTION OF ENGLISH SKELETON CLOCKS (LOTS 117-134)
A RARE VICTORIAN BRASS TIMEPIECE SKELETON CLOCK OF YEAR DURATION

JOHN PACE, BURY ST. EDMUNDS. CIRCA 1850

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A RARE VICTORIAN BRASS TIMEPIECE SKELETON CLOCK OF YEAR DURATION
JOHN PACE, BURY ST. EDMUNDS. CIRCA 1850
DIAL: skeletonised silvered and engraved chapter ring above intertwined weeks of the year and date rings, blued steel hands MOVEMENT: the substantial chamfered shield-shaped plates joined by four ring-turned pillars, twin chain fusees each driven by a pair of spring barrels and in turn driving two high count intermediate wheels to the centre wheel, the third, escape wheels and pallets on individual cocks secured to the back plate, dead beat anchor escapement, the whole raised on chamfered cast brass base signed 'John Pace/Bury St. Edmunds' and again to the front 'John Pace'; pendulum, winding key, replaced velvet-covered and mahogany plinth and glass dome
18 in. (45.5 cm.) high, excluding dome; 18 in. (45.5 cm.) wide; 10 in. (25.5 cm.) deep
來源
The Heathcote Collection
The Time Museum, inventory no. 1342, Sotheby's New York, Masterpieces from the Time Museum, Part II, 19 June 2002, lot 194.
出版
D. Roberts, British Skeleton Clocks, Woodbridge, 1987, pp. 90-97, fig.; D. Roberts, Mystery, Novelty and Fantasy Clocks, Pennsylvania, 1999, pp. 118-119, figs. 9-19.

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
F.B. Royer-Collard, Skeleton Clocks, London, 1969, pp. 111-112, figs. 7-4/7-7.
John Pace (1783-1867, see also lot 121) is perhaps most famous for his long duration skeleton clocks. At the Great Exhibition of 1851 he exhibited a three year duration skeleton clock, the current whereabouts of which are unknown, and a pyramidal form three month clock of a type illustrated by Roberts (p. 95, fig.). Roberts suggests that Pace collaborated closely with Benjamin Parker (p. 91).
Year clocks -- the most famous example of which is a silver-mounted ebony clock made by Thomas Tompion for William III, in the British Museum -- are quite rare and appear infrequently at auction. See lot 212 for a year going wall regulator.