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    Sale 7000

    CHIRK CASTLE, WREXHAM, WALES

    Chirk Castle

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    21 June 2004

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    • A REGENCE ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRASS
    Lot 65

    A REGENCE ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRASS INLAID TORTOISESHELL BOULLE BRACKET CLOCK

    EARLY 18TH CENTURY, THE MOVEMENT SIGNED 'DELISLE APARIS'

    Price realised

    GBP 8,962

    Estimate

    GBP 3,000 - GBP 5,000

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    A REGENCE ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRASS INLAID TORTOISESHELL BOULLE BRACKET CLOCK
    EARLY 18TH CENTURY, THE MOVEMENT SIGNED 'DELISLE APARIS'
    With 9 in. twelve-piece enamelled cartouche dial and square plated movement with vase shaped pillars, outside countwheel and altered escapement, the backplate signed 'Delisle AParis', the case veneered with ground shell, brass and applied with gilt-metal mounts, the cresting surmounted by a winged putto seated on a ball with a female mask and leaf mount below the dial, on a similarly-decorated integrel stand
    36 in. high (91.5 cm.)

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    C. Hussey, 'Chirk Castle', Country Life, 5 October 1951, fig 7 (illustrated in situ in the Bow Drawing Room).


    Lot Essay

    Jean-Louis Delisle or De L'Isle, ma<->tre in 1717.

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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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