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95 An ormolu mounted white marble and biscuit porcelain ‘Venus’ mantel timepiece The design attributed to Benjamin Vulliamy, late 18th/early 19th century The French eight-day movement with platform lever escapement vertically mounted on the backplate and white enamel Roman numeral chapter ring to the engine turned-gilt dial within a rope-twist bezel, in a case with gilt compressed urn surmount above shaped upstand housing the movement and dial, raised on a half rotunda temple-form base with conforming ovoid pedestal vase finials above the gilt-capped Tuscan columns enclosing a figure of a semi-clad Classical female holding forth a dove flanked by male and female putti, the former with a basket of fruit the latter with a birdcage, the figures set on a shaped gilt plinth with mirror behind, the whole on stepped curved base, some restoration, 49cm high. Provenance: Christies, King Street Out of The Ordinary The Discerning And Individual Taste of Christopher Gibbs And Harris Lindsay 10th May 2006 lot 236. Where the case is attributed to Benjamin Vulliamy and the figures to Derby. The design of the current lot clock is perhaps related to the model celebrating the triumph of Love with Euterpe produced by Vulliamy with Duesbury Derby figures modelled by Johann Jacob Wilhelm Spangler in the early 1790’s. Both share the use of bisque porcelain figures within a well conceived and detailed temple-form case. The proportions and refined detailing of the current lot confirms the fact that this clock was conceived by someone highly versed in Classical Arts and Architecture such as Vulliamy. £3,000-5,000 48 www.dnfa.com/donnington
96 A George III mahogany table clock Samuel Norton, London, circa 1770 The five-pillar twin fusee bell-striking movement with verge escapement and delicate pagoda and foliate-scroll engraved backplate, the 7 inch square single-sheet silvered Roman numeral dial (viewed through a brass-bezel lined 6.5 inch circular aperture to the front door) with calendar aperture, blued steel hands and signed Sam. Norton, LONDON to a shaped recessed plate to centre, with Arabic five minutes and Strike/Silent switch at 12 o’clock, the mahogany bell top case with brass carrying handle above circular brass-bezel applied quarter veneered front door and rectangular fish-scale fret side apertures, on mounded base with moulded squab feet, (case distressed) 38cm high excluding handle. Samuel Norton is recorded in Baillie G.H. WATCHMAKERS & CLOCKMAKERS OF THE WORLD as working in London 1773-92. The design of the current lot with the circular aperture in the front door only revealing the central section of the square dial was first introduced by John Ellicott in around 1760. £3,000-4,000 01635 553553 49
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