A GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED, DERBY BISCUIT PORCELAIN AND WHITE MARBLE `COLUMN` TIMEPIECE MANTEL CLOCK

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Los 81 | A GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED, DERBY BISCUIT PORCELAIN AND WHITE MARBLE 'COLUMN' TIMEPIECE MANTEL CLOCK
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A GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED, DERBY BISCUIT PORCELAIN AND WHITE MARBLE 'COLUMN' TIMEPIECE MANTEL CLOCK

BENJAMIN VULLIAMY, CIRCA 1785

The case modelled as a fluted column on a crepidoma base with a segment of fluted column to the top, flanked on one side by a putto mid-stride holding a mallet and on the other by a Campana vase with removable cover decorated with vines on a scroll, the stepped marble plinth decorated with various surveying tools and a pile of books on a scroll engraved with 'Tempus fugit irreparibile Virg.' (a quote from Virgil's Georgics - 'Time flies, never to be regained'), the base signed 'Vulliamy London No. 184', the white enamel dial with gilt Roman chapters, dot minute markers and pierced gilt hands, the narrow fusee timepiece movement joined by five tapered pillars, with half dead-beat escapement, rise and fall regulation and ebony pendulum rod with weighted brass bob, the backplate engraved 'Vulliamy / London / No. 184'

15 in. (38 cm.) high; 12 in. (30 cm.) wide; 8 in. (20 cm.) deep





Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

A. Kelly, 'A Clockmaker's Taste for Ceramics', Country Life, 15 June 1967, pp. 1526-1528.

T. Clifford, 'Vulliamy Clocks and British Sculpture', Apollo, October 1990, pp. 235-238, fig. 10.

T. Clifford, 'New evidence concerning Vulliamy clocks and Duesbury porcelain', Derby Porcelain International Society Journal, II, 1991, pp. 35-52.
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