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DONNINGTON PRIORY
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A French brass lantern clock
Unsigned, mid 18th century
The posted rack and bell-striking
movement with anchor escapement and
passing half-hour strike on the same bell
with a second hammer, the dial with
alarm setting disc to the plain centre
within applied Roman numeral chapter
ring with starburst half hour markers
beneath crest with sunburst mask within
foliate scrolls surmounted with a
cockerel, the frame with tall teardrop
shaped feet, columnar uprights and urn
finials beneath bell with turned finial
(pendulum, pallets, and alarm lacking,
generally distressed), 39cm (15.5ins)
high.
£400-600
214
214
A brass inlaid mahogany bracket
timepiece
Barwise, London, early 19th century
The four pillar single fusee movement
with anchor escapement and pendulum
holdfast to the shouldered backplate, the
6 inch circular convex white Roman
numeral painted dial signed BARWISE,
LONDON to centre and with blued steel
Breguet hands within a cast brass
glazed bezel, the shallow-arch top case
with curved reeded moulding
terminating in scrolls to arch above
brass ring side handles, foliate scroll
inlaid shaped panel beneath dial and
conforming quarter moulding to the skirt
base with disc feet, 34.5cm (13ins) high.
£500-700
215
215
A mahogany balloon shaped bracket
clock
Unsigned, circa 1900
The four pillar twin fusee bell striking
movement with anchor escapement and
8 inch circular white painted Roman
numeral dial with blued steel hands
within a cast brass bezel and convex
glass, the waisted case with line edged
shaped panel beneath dial and brass
grille sound fret to rear door, on moulded
base with brass disc feet, 47cm (18.5ins)
high.
£200-300
216
216
A French gilt brass four glass
mantel clock
Retailed by Aird and Thomson,
late 19th century
The eight-day two train bell striking
movement with twin mercury jar
pendulum and visible Brocot
escapement to the recessed centre of
the two-piece white enamel Roman
numeral dial with blued steel Breguet
hands and signed AIRD & THOMSON
between the winding squares, the heavy
brass bevel-glazed case with channel
cut corners to the moulded cornice and
rounded uprights above cavetto moulded
skirt base with conforming detail to
angles and incorporating bracket feet,
36cm (14ins) high.
£400-600
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