Antique Wall Clocks


	THOS. COLE No. 1844 Date: c1864	SILVANI & Co BRIGHTON Date: c1825
	A rare large decorative gilt-brass strut clock with porcelain dial. The well engraved octagonal shaped case, the rear with folding strut support, fixed winder and sliding aperture to access the escapement and numbered 1844. The oval porcelain dial with blue ground, almost certainly by the Minton factory, decorated with flowers and musical instruments signed at the top for J.W Benson, 25 Old Bond Street, with Roman numerals and gilt fleur-de-lys hands. The eight-day duration movement signed Thos. Cole LONDON with ratchet tooth lever escapement and plain steel balance. Case height: 8 ¼ inches (21cms). See ‘Thomas Cole & Victorian Clockmaking’ by J.B. Hawkins item 24 on page 87 and colour plate opposite page 80. Clocks by Thomas Cole with porcelain dials are particularly rare.	A very fine early nineteenth century mahogany and cross-banded clock barometer with bow-fronted removable thermometer. The clock with circular eight-day duration fusee movement; silvered dial with Roman numerals and blued steel moon hands. The flame mahogany cross-banded case with scroll pediment also having hygrometer and spirit leveller within a ilvered plaque signed SILVANI & Co. BRIGHTON. £5,950

‘FEMMES D’ANGERS’ Date: c1880		BENJAMIN WARD London C1800
An unusual and fine quality French gilt and silvered carriage clock, the porcelain side panels depicting ladies in provincial dress are signed by Simonnet and marked ‘Femmes d’Angers. The conforming dial with alarm chapter. The gong striking movement, with repeat, having a lever escapement. Case height: 7 inches (18cms).		A very fine and imposing George 111 period bracket clock in an inverted bell top case decorated with well preserved and patinated lacquer on a red ground. The break-arch dial with silvered chapter ring, subsidiary strike/silent ring and rococo spandrels. The plain silvered centre signed by the maker BENJ WARD, London with alarm disc and date aperture. The two train fusee movement with ‘chinoiserie’ engraved back plate, sounding the hours on a bell with alarm train and verge escapement. The alarm set via a pull cord to the side of the case. Height: 18 inches (46cms).

	J. DEJARDIN Paris Date: C1880	J. DEJARDIN movement
	A rare French Westminster chiming carriage clock. The two train spring barrel movement, signed on the backplate ‘JD’, sounding the quarters on four bells, situated in the base, via a small pin barrel, the hours struck on a gong; with a top quality silvered lever platform escapement. The white enamel dial with Roman numerals and blued steel spade hands contained within a gilt-brass glazed case with folding carrying handle. Case height: 5 ½ inches (14cms). An identical movement is illustrated in ‘Carriage Clocks their history and development’ by Charles Allix and Peter Bonnert, page 197. £5,750

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