A GEORGE II BRASS-MOUNTED GREEN AND GILT-JAPANNED QUARTER-CHIMING ASTRONOMICAL TABLE CLOCK, JOHN ELLICOTT, LONDON, CIRCA 1760

A GEORGE II BRASS-MOUNTED GREEN AND GILT-JAPANNED QUARTER-CHIMING ASTRONOMICAL TABLE CLOCK
JOHN ELLICOTT, LONDON, CIRCA 1760
CASE: with inverted bell top, tiered sound frets, surmounted by revolving moon painted to show its phases, with flaming urn finials and caryatids trailing flowers to all angles, the sides with brass handles above glazed panels, on brass scroll feet; mounts re-gilt, paintwork refreshed DIAL: the 9 in. brass dial with scroll and foliate spandrels to the engraved and silvered chapter ring, with wheat ear engraved border to the arch, signed Ellicott London between silvered rings showing lunar date and annual calendar (Spanish inscriptions for the months), the latter arch also showing the zodiacal calendar, sunrise and sunset, and the declination of the sun above the equator MOVEMENT: eight day duration with six knopped pillars, triple line fusees with verge escapement, chiming the quarters on a nest of eight bells and the hours on further bell, with trip repeat, the back plate engraved with scrolls and with a flowering basket, signed Ellicott/London; with case key and winding key
32 ¼ in. (82 cm.) high; 17 ¼ in. (44 cm.) wide; 11 in. (28 cm.) deep

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Provenance
The Time Museum, Rockford, Illinois, inv' 'no. A586', until sold;
Masterpieces from the Time Museum, Sotheby's, New York, 2 December 1999, lot 79 ($51,750 including premium), where acquired by the present owner.

Pre-Lot Text
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION (LOTS 115-116)

Literature
P. Heuer & K. Maurice, Europäische Pendeluhren, Munich, 1988, pp. 148-149, figs. 281-282.