A GEORGE II GILT-BRASS MOUNTED EBONISED AUTOMATON QUARTER-CHIMING TABLE CLOCK
A GEORGE II GILT-BRASS MOUNTED EBONISED AUTOMATON QUARTER-CHIMING TABLE CLOCK

STEPHEN RIMBAULT, LONDON, MID-18TH CENTURY, THE DIAL PROBABLY PAINTED BY JOHAN ZOFFANY

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A GEORGE II GILT-BRASS MOUNTED EBONISED AUTOMATON QUARTER-CHIMING TABLE CLOCK
STEPHEN RIMBAULT, LONDON, MID-18TH CENTURY, THE DIAL PROBABLY PAINTED BY JOHAN ZOFFANY
CASE: the domed top with brass loop handle and cone finials, herm busts to the chamfered angles, glazed sides and rear door, raised on bracket feet; DIAL: with Roman hours and Arabic minutes, date aperture and reserve signed 'Stepn. Rimbault / LONDON', the arch with painted scene of musicians , the right arms of each figure moving with the pendulum swing; MOVEMENT: the three train gut fusee movement with verge escapement, automata connected to the pendulum, quarter chiming playing two tunes on nine bells via fifteen hammers and striking on a large bell, the lower backplate signed 'PETER MERTZ ANNO 1723', case key and later winding key
19 ½ in. (49.5 cm.) high (handle down); 13 ¼ in. (33.6 cm.) wide; 8 ¼ in. (21 cm.) deep

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Richard C.R. Barder, The Georgian Bracket Clock 1714-1830, Woodbridge, 1993, p.60-1, pl.II/43.
John Stephen Rimbault is recorded in Great St Andrews Street, London between 1744-1785. He specialised in musical and automaton clocks. The painted scene on the present clock may be attributable to the artist Johann Zoffany (1733-1810), whom Rimbault employed after his arrival in England in 1760 as a decorative assistant to paint dials and automaton figures. Rimbault introduced Zoffany to the portrait painter Benjamin Wilson, who employed him at £40 to fill in draperies. His talent was subsequently recognized by David Garrick, for whom he painted pictures of actors on stage. He was later a founding member of the Royal Academy.

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