A ROYAL GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED WHITE MARBLE TEMPLE CLOCK

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Los 226 | A ROYAL GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED WHITE MARBLE TEMPLE CLOCK
A ROYAL GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED WHITE MARBLE TEMPLE CLOCK

BY BENJAMIN VULLIAMY, NO. 202, THE DERBY BISCUIT PORCELAIN FIGURE BY JOHN DEARE, CIRCA 1791-1793, ACQUIRED BY THE PRINCE REGENT IN 1811

With an eagle cresting flanked by recumbent ormolu lions, added in the early Regency period, above a circular enameled clock face with Roman numeral dial and supported by a Classical portico inset with engraved ormolu panels and enclosing a Derby biscuit figure of Hygeia standing beside a pedestal with fruit, on a stepped base, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label, the Regency embellishments of the eagle finial and recumbent lions were added specifically for the Prince Regent

33 in. (83.8 cm.) high, 16 ½ in. (41.9 cm.) wide, 9 in. (22.9 cm.) deep





Provenance

Almost certainly acquired from Vulliamy by George, Prince of Wales (later George IV), in 1811.

Acquired from Hotspur, London, by Ann and Gordon Getty in 1986.



Literature

T. Clifford, ‘Vulliamy Clocks and British Sculpture,’ Apollo, October 1990, pp. 226-237, fig. 15.

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

'Vulliamy Clock Numbers: A Postscript', Antiquarian Horology, Autumn 1994, pp. 427-29.

R. Smith, ‘Benjamin Vulliamy’s Painted Satinwood Clocks and Pedestals’, Apollo, June 1995, pp. 25-33.

T. Walford and H. Young (eds.), British Ceramic Design 1600-2002, (ECC 2003), pp. 124-137.

A.P. Ledger, R. Smith, Benjamin Vulliamy and the Derby Porcelain Manufactory, 1784-1795, Derby, 2007, p. 58 fig. 22.

R. Smith, Benjamin Vulliamy and the Derby Porcelain Manufactory, 1784-95, 2007.
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