Lot 238
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A GEORGE II STRIKING AND AUTOMATON EIGHT DAY STRIKING BRACKET CLOCK WITH PULL QUARTER REPEAT
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A GEORGE II STRIKING AND AUTOMATON EIGHT DAY STRIKING BRACKET CLOCK WITH PULL QUARTER REPEAT

THE MOVEMENT BY CHRISTOPHER PINCHBECK, LONDON, CIRCA 1760, NOW IN AN 18TH CENTURY FRENCH GILT-METAL MOUNTED RED TORTOISESHELL CASE

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A GEORGE II STRIKING AND AUTOMATON EIGHT DAY STRIKING BRACKET CLOCK WITH PULL QUARTER REPEAT
THE MOVEMENT BY CHRISTOPHER PINCHBECK, LONDON, CIRCA 1760, NOW IN AN 18TH CENTURY FRENCH GILT-METAL MOUNTED RED TORTOISESHELL CASE
CASE: of waisted form, with foliate mounts, pineapple finial to pediment BRACKET: of conforming design DIAL: of waisted outline and painted with a scene to the top showing three automaton carpenters, a woman churning butter and a windmill with revolving sails, silvered chapter ring, gilt matted centre with date aperture, the silvered mock pendulum plate signed 'Pinchbeck London', blued steel hands MOVEMENT: five pillars, with verge escapement, rack strike on bell and re-instated pull quarter repeat on six bells, the back plate elaborately engraved with foliate scrolls and signed 'Chris.h Pinchbeck/London'; two case keys
30 in. (76 cm.) high; 13 in. (33 cm.) wide; 6¾ in. (17 cm.) deep (overall) (2)
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Christopher Pinchbeck II (1710-1783) was the son of the clockmaker and inventor Christopher Pinchbeck who invented 'Pinchbeck Gold'. Christopher II was clockmaker to the King and referred to himself as 'Senior'. He left his father's Fleet Street shop in 1738. An almost identical automaton scene is on a Pinchbeck ebonised table clock sold Sotheby's New York, Masterpieces from the Time Museum, Part Four, Vol.I, 13 October 2004, lot 550 ($24,000).

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