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The musical movement playing six tunes: Belsize Minuet; K:Georges March; On a bank of Flowers; A Vrigin of 15; The Spanish Figa; Phillis a Minuett.
The Cabriers were a celebrated dynasty of Huguenot watch and clockmakers who settled in London after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685).
Two Charles Cabriers, father and son, are recorded in London at this date. Charles Snr. was apprenticed in 1719, became a Freeman of the Clockmakers' Company in 1726 and is recorded working at the Dial in Lothbury and then at 79 Broad Street from 1734. He was Master of the Company in 1757 and recorded in Threadneedle Street in 1759. Charles Jnr. became a Freeman of the Company by patrimony in 1756. Both men were working until 1777.
R.C.R. Barder illustrates a pair of superb musical and automaton table clocks signed Charles Cabrier, reputedly made for the King of Nepal (The Georgian Bracket Clock 1714-1830, Woodbridge, 1993, p. 164, pl. XVII). According to Britten the Czar of Russia's collection in the Winter Palace included a diamond-decorated repeating watch signed Cabrier.
A George I green japanned striking table clock of closely related design by Joseph Windmills was sold GBP 55.250,- Christie's King Street, 500 YEARS: DECORATIVE ARTS EUROPE, lot 45, 27 May 2010, sale number 7851.
The Cabriers were a celebrated dynasty of Huguenot watch and clockmakers who settled in London after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685).
Two Charles Cabriers, father and son, are recorded in London at this date. Charles Snr. was apprenticed in 1719, became a Freeman of the Clockmakers' Company in 1726 and is recorded working at the Dial in Lothbury and then at 79 Broad Street from 1734. He was Master of the Company in 1757 and recorded in Threadneedle Street in 1759. Charles Jnr. became a Freeman of the Company by patrimony in 1756. Both men were working until 1777.
R.C.R. Barder illustrates a pair of superb musical and automaton table clocks signed Charles Cabrier, reputedly made for the King of Nepal (The Georgian Bracket Clock 1714-1830, Woodbridge, 1993, p. 164, pl. XVII). According to Britten the Czar of Russia's collection in the Winter Palace included a diamond-decorated repeating watch signed Cabrier.
A George I green japanned striking table clock of closely related design by Joseph Windmills was sold GBP 55.250,- Christie's King Street, 500 YEARS: DECORATIVE ARTS EUROPE, lot 45, 27 May 2010, sale number 7851.