• Christie's Interiors - Masters auction at Christies

    Sale 9441

    Christie's Interiors - Masters & Makers

    London, South Kensington

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    1 October 2013

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    • AN EBONISED STRIKING TURNTABLE
    Lot 37

    AN EBONISED STRIKING TURNTABLE CLOCK

    THE DIAL AND MOVEMENT LATE 17TH CENTURY WITH RESTORATIONS, THE CASE LATE 20TH CENTURY BY H.G.HAMMOND

    Price realised

    GBP 6,250

    Estimate

    GBP 5,000 - GBP 7,000

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    AN EBONISED STRIKING TURNTABLE CLOCK
    THE DIAL AND MOVEMENT LATE 17TH CENTURY WITH RESTORATIONS, THE CASE LATE 20TH CENTURY BY H.G.HAMMOND
    The architectural case with flambeau finials, brass-mounted columns to the angles, the brass dial with silvered chapter ring with Roman hours, Arabic five minutes, the matted centre with date aperture and alarm ring, blued-steel hands, cherub head spandrels, the eight-day two-train movement with gut line fusees, re-instated tic-tac escapemenet and maintaining power, eight latched pillars and split front plate, the dial also latched
    17¼ in. (43.7 cm.) high overall; 15½ in. (39.4 cm.) wide; 10¾ in. (27.3 cm.) deep

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    Lot Essay

    The case for this clock is likely to have been inspired by early Fromanteel clocks. See Exhibition Catalogue, The First Twelve Years of The Pendulum Clock, London, Ronald A. Lee Galleries, February 1969, No. 11, Pls. 31-34 and No. 25, Pl. 77.

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