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A REGENCY MAHOGANY LONGCASE CLOCK
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A REGENCY MAHOGANY LONGCASE CLOCK

RICHARD CHATER, LONDON. CIRCA 1810

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY LONGCASE CLOCK
Richard Chater, London. Circa 1810
The ebony-banded lancet-arched hood with stepped pediment and with gilt-brass capped cluster columns to the door, pierced brass sound frets to the sides, the trunk with conforming arched door and flanked by chamfered angles topped by cast gilt-brass pharaonic bust mounts and terminating in gilt-brass feet, the plinth with raised panel and on stepped skirting, the 11½in. diameter white painted Roman convex dial signed RICH.D CHATER LONDON in the centre, with pierced and blued steel hands, with circular false plate to the five pillar movement with anchor escapement and rack strike on bell, two brass weights and steel rod pendulum with brass bob and calibrated rating nut
7ft.1¾in. (2.18m.) high
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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis
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The clock measures 7ft.7in. (2.31m) high, including finial

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The case for the clock, signed by Richard Chater (d.1811), is conceived in the early 19th century Egyptian manner and embellished with Egyptian herm pilasters, whose fluted Grecian-ribbon frets reflect the fashion popularised by the architect Sir John Soane. The same patterned pilasters feature on the similar case of a clock signed by the London Bridge clock-maker John Sharpe (fl. 1812 - 1830) (sold by The Hon. Clive and Anne Gibson, Sotheby's London, 15 September 2000, lot 148). A related Egyptian-hermed bracket-clock, also with pointed-arch case and Grecian-stepped cornice, is in the collection of the Bank of England. Its movement is signed by the firm of Brockbank and Atkins, established in 1815 (M. Jourdain, Regency Furniture, London, rev. ed., 1965, p. 99, fig. 238).

The brother of a clockmaker, Richard Chater was apprenticed in 1774 and Free of the Clockmakers' Company in 1781. In 1803 he was appointed a Liveryman.