A GEORGE III PASTE-SET ORMOLU MUSICAL TABLE CLOCK

Lot 383
22.10.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 65 520
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Lieu de l'événementEtats-Unis, New York
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ID 820093
Lot 383 | A GEORGE III PASTE-SET ORMOLU MUSICAL TABLE CLOCK
Valeur estimée
$ 50 000 – 80 000
A GEORGE III PASTE-SET ORMOLU MUSICAL TABLE CLOCK

JOHN MOTTRAM, LONDON, CIRCA 1790

CASE: of rectangular outline, the stepped top with balustraded galleries and later eagle finial, the front mounted with blue, white and red paste-set medallions about the convex glass bezel, the angles with outset feathered scrolls, pierced sound fret panels to sides and rear door, the stepped base raised on feet modeled as flowering cornucopia

DIAL: the white enamel dial with Roman hours and Arabic five minute markers, gilt spade hands

MOVEMENT: the substantial three-train chain fusee movement with quarter-striking to the backplate, the pin barrel musical movement with sixteen hammers striking twelve bells, enamel four-tune selection dial to the rear signed ‘JN. MOTTRAM / LONDON’ and numbered‘1-4’, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label

17 in. (43.2 cm.) high, 10 1/4 in. (26 cm.) wide, 10 1/4 in. (26 cm.) deep





Provenance

A Gentleman; Christie’s, London, 22 November 1978, lot 154.

With Blairman, London, 1978.

Acquired from Jeremy Ltd., London, by Ann and Gordon Getty in 1979.

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