Posts Tagged ‘AUTOMATON’
Saturday, January 16th, 2010
ANTIQUE OAK AND MAHOGANY LONGCASE CLOCKS
A Longcase Clock Movement, circa 1740, with a Win. square brass dial, cast putto and crown spandrels, silvered chapter ring, matted centre signed Jno.
Inkpen, Horsham, the 30-hour movement rack striking on a bell, lacking, in a posted frame, with anchor escapement, with pendulum.
An oak Longcase Clock, with a 12in. arched [...]
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Thursday, January 7th, 2010
MAHOGANY MUSICAL LONGCASE CLOCK, OAK LONGCASE CLOCK, 18TH CENTURY OAK LONGCASE CLOCK
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY MUSICAL LONGCASE CLOCK, the 12-inch dial with seconds dial, calendar aperture and rococo spandrels, the arch signed John Meredith London between Chime/Not Chime and four tune selector dials, the music including Nu vel vaerfrist til mode, the repeating three train [...]
Tags: A BURR-WALNUT LONGCASE, Anthony Hebert London, AUTOMATON, broken arch, Calendar, CENTURY, Clarke Leadenhall, clock, cock, corinthian columns, fruitwood, GEORGE, GEORGE III, Gray London, Joseph Oxley, longcase clock, MAHOGANY, MARQUETRY, MUSICAL, north country, OAK, pediment, pendulum aperture, pillar, plinth, REPEATING, right angles, rococo, SECONDS, SILVER, street london, STRIKING, swan neck, Thomas Kefford, veneer, Wainwright
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Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
Belgian carved oak Longcase Clock, mahogany Longcase Clock, ‘Adam and Eve’ Longcase Clock, walnut and marquetry Longcase Clock
An oak and mahogany 48-hour
Longcase Clock, the ll square painted
dial indistinctly signed Rollsonf,
Stamford, the hood with scroll pediment
and fluted columns cross-hatched trunk
door and resting on a deep plinth,
with weight and
pendulum
A mahogany Longcase Clock,
with a arched painted dial, with
rolling [...]
Tags: adam and eve, aperture, AUTOMATON, ball finials, baluster, BRASS, brass finials, broken arch, Calendar, clock, day bell, dial, door, EBONISED, FIGURE, foliate, GEORGE III, guernsey, HUNTING, inlaid, john watts, Joseph Quarman, longcase, longcase clock, lunar phase, MAHOGANY, mark jacob, MARQUETRY, OAK, pediment, pendulum, pillars, plinth, QUARTER, rolling moon, Rollsonf, SECONDS, side columns, SILVER, SMALL, spandrels, Stamford, STRIKING, subsidiary, train movement, WALNUT, Watts, weight, winder
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Saturday, December 26th, 2009
GOLD AND ENAMEL VERGE WATCH, GOLD AND SPLIT PEARL SET HUNTING CASED VERGE WATCH, QUARTER REPEATING AUTOMATON WATCH, REPEATING MUSICAL CYLINDER WATCH
A GOLD AND ENAMEL VERGE WATCH in the form of a mandolin,
the unsigned movement with white enamel dial with arabic
numerals, the sounding board of dark blue enamel, the back
of the case with panels of [...]
Tags: arabic numerals, AUTOMATON, brooch, CENTURY, CHAMPLEVE, CLOCKWATCH, CYLINDER, Des Arts, enamel, enamel dial, escapement, Francois, gold decoration, HUNTING, MANDO- LIN, mandolin, mechanism, REPEATING, roman numerals, schmit, scrollwork, SECONDS, SET, SILVER QUARTER, sounding board, VERGE
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Saturday, December 26th, 2009
QUARTER-STRIKING BRACKET CLOCK, 18TH CENTURY BRACKET CLOCK AND BRACKET, WOOD WALL CLOCK, ENGLISH LANTERN CLOCK, GERMAN ZAPPLER MANTEL TIMEPIECE
A NEUCHATELOISE QUARTER-STRIKING BRACKET CLOCK with a convex enamel dial, the movement with anchor escapement and gong striking with outside count wheel cut for the hours and
quarters, the waisted case with an oval pendulum aper-rure and decorated [...]
Tags: ALARUM, anchor, AUTOMATON, backplate, birdcage, bracket, bracket clock, Calendar, CENTURY, clock, country pursuits, EARLY, enamel plaques, English, escapement, FIGURE, GERMAN, gilt flowers, ITALIAN, italian walnut, IVORY, jaquet droz, Jonas Pierre Con-tesse, LANTERN, lantern clock, Luigi Moschini, MANTEL, NEUCHATELOISE, plumage, QUARTER-STRIKING, singing bird, slender columns, steel centre, Surround, TIMEPIECE, tortoiseshell, UNUSUAL, vertical balance, VERY, Wall Clock, white breast, wood, WOOD WALL, ZAPPLER
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Saturday, December 26th, 2009
FRENCH ALARUM CARRIAGE CLOCK, SILVER MANTEL CLOCK, GERMAN BRASS ALARUM TRAVELLING CLOCK, RUSSIAN EBONISED MUSICAL BRACKET CLOCK, WALL TIMEPIECE
A SILVER MANTEL CLOCK with a chipped enamel dial with arabic chapters, the French lever movement with gong strik-ing, in a moulded arched case with bun feet, London hall-marks
for 1911, 9in. high (23cm.).
A FRENCH ALARUM CARRIAGE CLOCK [...]
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