Donnington Priory Salerooms

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A Victorian mahogany bracket clock
Unsigned, mid 19th century
The four-pillar twin fusee bell striking movement with 8 inch
circular white painted Roman numeral dial, the case with
shallow arch pediment and turned finials above canted front
angles applied with projecting corner columns, on canted plinth
base with compressed bun feet, 46cm high.
£400-600
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A mahogany drop dial fusee timepiece
Unsigned, 19th century
The four-pillar single fusee movement with anchor escapement
and 12 inch convex white painted Roman numeral dial within a
cast brass bezel and turned wooded surround, the drop-case
with shaped brass-lined lenticle and pendulum adjustment flap to
the curved base, with restorations, 50cm high.
£200-300
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A Regency mahogany drop-dial wall timepiece
Unsigned, early 19th century
The four-pillar single fusee movement with anchor escapement and
12 inch circular convex white painted Roman numeral dial within a
cast brass bezel and turned surround above fan carved ears and
shaped lenticle to the marquetry rosette inlaid drop-trunk, the rounded
base with pendulum adjustment flap, 57cm high.
£300-500
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A Victorian mother of pearl inlaid rosewood drop dial
wall clock
Alexander Barrett. Whitchurch, mid 19th century
The five-pillar twin fusee bell striking movement with 12 inch circular
white painted Roman numeral dial signed Alex, Barrett, WHITCHURCH to
centre within a cast brass bezel and foliate trail inlaid octagonal rosewood
surround above later carved ears and oval lenticle to the mother of pearl
inlaid trunk, with pendulum adjustment flap to the conforming rounded
base, 73cm high.
An Alexander Barrett is recorded in Loomes, Brian Watchmakers &
Clockmakers of the World, Volume 2 as working in Whitchurch circa
1879.
£700-1,000
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A mahogany eight-day longcase clock with rocking ship
Unsigned, probably Bristol, early 19th century
The four-pillar rack and bell striking movement with 13 inch white
painted Roman numeral break-arch dial with arched calendar
aperture and subsidiary seconds dial to centre, polychrome foliate
scroll painted spandrels to angles and ship rocking back and forth
to the motion of the pendulum within maritime painted scenery to
arch, the case with shaped outline arched crest above twist turned
Corinthian pilasters and wavy-edge door aperture to hood above
rectangular panel-inlaid trunk door flanked by conforming columns
on plinth base with moulded skirt,
217cm high.
£500-700
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