A GEORGE III RED-STAINED TORTOISESHELL AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED STRIKING AND MUSICAL EIGHT DAY TABLE CLOCK FOR THE TURKISH MARKET

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A GEORGE III RED-STAINED TORTOISESHELL AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED STRIKING AND MUSICAL EIGHT DAY TABLE CLOCK FOR THE TURKISH MARKET

MARKWICK MARKHAM AND PERIGAL, LONDON. CIRCA 1790

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A GEORGE III RED-STAINED TORTOISESHELL AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED STRIKING AND MUSICAL EIGHT DAY TABLE CLOCK FOR THE TURKISH MARKET
MARKWICK MARKHAM AND PERIGAL, LONDON. CIRCA 1790
CASE: elaborately mounted to all sides, with silk-backed frets to the cupola top, foliate-pierced side frets, all angles with grape-festooned scroll columns, brass-lined doors, upper mouldings and plinth, on four sets of double scroll feet DIAL: 4 3/8 in. (11.2 cm.) wide silver and polychrome enamel dial set with enamel chapter discs, the main disc with Turkish numerals and signed 'MARKWICK/MARKHAM/PERIGAL/LONDON', pierced ormolu hands, with discs above for chime/silent and four tune selection ('BENI SAIKIT/SABAC HAFIF/SAMAHE/USCHAE DEVIR'), subsidiaries with ormolu arrow hands MOVEMENT: six pillars, triple line fusees with verge escapement, hourly music on eight bells with fourteen hammers, hour strike on bell, trip repeat for music and hour strike, the back plate engraved with foliate scrolls around a cartouche signed 'MARKWICK/MARKHAM/PERIGAL/LONDON', secured to the case with bolts through the baseboard, formerly also with brackets; winding key, door key
17 in. (43 cm.) high; 10½ in. (26.5 cm.) wide; 8 in. (20 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

An almost identical clock by this maker, with minor differences to the enamel decoration and possibly conceived as a pair to the present clock, was sold Sotheby's Amsterdam, the Janssen Collection, 25 November 2003, lot 167 (58,560 euros). Another almost identical Turkish market table clock, by Markwick, Markham & Borrell, is illustrated in P. Heuer/K. Maurice, Europaïsche Pendeluhren, Munich, 1988, p. 142, fig. 266. See also A.W.J.G. Ord-Hume, The Musical Clock, Mayfield, 1995, p. 73, pl. IV/22. A larger version of this model, also by Markwick, Markham & Borrell and housing an organ movement, was sold Christie's London, 7 December 2005, lot 45 (£50,400).
The firm of Markwick Markham and Perigal was initially a partnership of Robert Markham (continuing the name of his partnership with his father-in-law James Markwick) and Francis Perigal and is recorded 1751-1825.

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