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拍品專文
The Vulliamy workbook lists:
343 Small Black Lion Clock
Bullock the Movt. £5 s5
Day the marble £5 s
Culver engraving the hands s5
Brown engraving the small plate s3 d6
Long & Dew the dial s11
Bousset the brass ring s2 d6
Houle casting and chasing the two lions £2 s2
Crockett the gilding £3 s8
Barrow the brass work 5 days £1 s5
Osbourn the Hour glass £1 s5
Brownly the Stand s13
Velvet s10
Del.vd. to Lord Villiers
April 15 1805
Vulliamy made a series of 'lion' timepieces, with some variations to their designs but all with drum cases and on rectangular plinths. The present example is one of the small models which date from an earlier period in the firm's production. Later models were distinguished by having eagle finials, wider cases with lions positioned along the plinth rather than across it and engine-turned dials (these include clocks 483, 498, 591, 618, 863). Variations on this theme include clocks with flattened disc finials comparable to that on the present clock but with long lions (316 and 344, with enamel dials and 466, with ormolu dial). Other known lion clocks of very closely related design to the present example (flattened disc finial, lions across the plinth, enamel dial, recessed ormolu plinth panelling) include:
No.309: Christie's, London, 20 November 2008, lot 5
No.317; Phillips, London, 17 December 1996, lot 161
No.318; Phillips, London, 8 December 1998, lot 252
No.352; Christie's, London, 13 April 1989, lot 2
No.389; Christie's, London, 17 November 1988, lot 22
Viscout Villiers was a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales. He took his seat in the House of Lords in 1805 and served as Lord Chamberlain of the Household under the Duke of Wellington and on the Privy Council in 1830. He was also Master of the Horse from 1841 to 1846. He married Lady Sarah Fane, daughter of John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland on 23 May 1804. Lady Fane was heiress of Robert Child and inherited Osterley Park, later given by the 9th Earl of Jersey to the National Trust in 1949.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Roger Smith Vulliamy Clock Numbering: A Dated Series, Antiquarian Horology, No. 6, Vol. 19, 1991, pp. 620-625.
Roger Smith Vulliamy Clock Numbering A Postscript, Antiquarian Horology, No. 5, Vol. 21, 1994, pp. 427-429.
David G. Vulliamy The Vulliamy Clockmakers, The Antiquarian Horological Society, 2002.
343 Small Black Lion Clock
Bullock the Movt. £5 s5
Day the marble £5 s
Culver engraving the hands s5
Brown engraving the small plate s3 d6
Long & Dew the dial s11
Bousset the brass ring s2 d6
Houle casting and chasing the two lions £2 s2
Crockett the gilding £3 s8
Barrow the brass work 5 days £1 s5
Osbourn the Hour glass £1 s5
Brownly the Stand s13
Velvet s10
Del.vd. to Lord Villiers
April 15 1805
Vulliamy made a series of 'lion' timepieces, with some variations to their designs but all with drum cases and on rectangular plinths. The present example is one of the small models which date from an earlier period in the firm's production. Later models were distinguished by having eagle finials, wider cases with lions positioned along the plinth rather than across it and engine-turned dials (these include clocks 483, 498, 591, 618, 863). Variations on this theme include clocks with flattened disc finials comparable to that on the present clock but with long lions (316 and 344, with enamel dials and 466, with ormolu dial). Other known lion clocks of very closely related design to the present example (flattened disc finial, lions across the plinth, enamel dial, recessed ormolu plinth panelling) include:
No.309: Christie's, London, 20 November 2008, lot 5
No.317; Phillips, London, 17 December 1996, lot 161
No.318; Phillips, London, 8 December 1998, lot 252
No.352; Christie's, London, 13 April 1989, lot 2
No.389; Christie's, London, 17 November 1988, lot 22
Viscout Villiers was a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales. He took his seat in the House of Lords in 1805 and served as Lord Chamberlain of the Household under the Duke of Wellington and on the Privy Council in 1830. He was also Master of the Horse from 1841 to 1846. He married Lady Sarah Fane, daughter of John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland on 23 May 1804. Lady Fane was heiress of Robert Child and inherited Osterley Park, later given by the 9th Earl of Jersey to the National Trust in 1949.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Roger Smith Vulliamy Clock Numbering: A Dated Series, Antiquarian Horology, No. 6, Vol. 19, 1991, pp. 620-625.
Roger Smith Vulliamy Clock Numbering A Postscript, Antiquarian Horology, No. 5, Vol. 21, 1994, pp. 427-429.
David G. Vulliamy The Vulliamy Clockmakers, The Antiquarian Horological Society, 2002.