Lot 363

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Description:

A magnificent George III musical bracket clock
circa 1820, by the noted maker Santiago James Moore French, of 15 Sweetings Alley, Royal Exchange, London, the eight day striking movement with quarter chiming and cylinder playing six musical airs on twelve bells, the backplate signed 'French Royal Exchange London' within an oval cartouche, the arched white enamelled Roman dial similarly signed, with painted floral spandrels and arch cartouche, pierced brass hands, beneath paired chime/not chime and musical air subsidiary dials, the airs titled 'O Dolce Concento', 'The Tank', 'Roast Beef', 'Russian Dance', 'The Padlock' and 'Tekeli', in an ebonised case with gilt bronze mounts, the caddy top surmounted by a detachable flambé finial with storage compartment beneath, over a pierced floral lattice frieze flanked by four smaller flambé finials, above an arched glazed door with pierced ormolu spandrels and an arched rear pierced grille door, both flanked by canted corners with swagged musical trophy mounts, the sides with floral latticework panels and gilt bronze carrying handles, raised on a plinth with central ormolu battle trophy mount, on four ormolu foliate scroll feet, 35 1/2in. (90cm.) high, 16 1/4in. (41cm.) wide.

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September 22, 2011 10:00 AM BST
Guernsey, United Kingdom

Martel Maides

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