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A fine Victorian long-duration ormolu tripod table regulator
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A fine Victorian long-duration ormolu tripod table regulator

THOMAS COLE NO. 1317/37, RETAILED BY HUNT & ROSKELL. CIRCA 1855

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A fine Victorian long-duration ormolu tripod table regulator
Thomas Cole No. 1317/37, retailed by Hunt & Roskell. Circa 1855
The 6in. diameter silvered dial with intricately engraved centre and plain chapter ring with painted Roman numerals, with subsidiary seconds dial below XII and a reserve above with rubbed retail signature for HUNT & ROSKELL LONDON, with spade hour hand and plain minute hand, with winding square to the apron below, the two-tier single barrel movement with deadbeat escapement and separately suspended pendulum with roller suspension and silvered spherical bob, fine calibration to the rod, numbered 1317/37 on the backplate, with plumb line to the top, the whole supported by three angled pillars rising from a stepped circular base, set with a silvered hemispherical aneroid barometer dial and with an angled mercurial thermometer, raised under three adjustable nut feet; under later glass dome
20½ in. (51 cm.) high, excluding dome
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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍品专文

Thomas Cole (d. 1875) made about 75 tripod clocks in several design variations (J. B. Hawkins, Thomas Cole & Victorian Clockmaking, Sydney, 1975, pp. 108-9). He records the highest number as 1836 69. The number 1317 on the present clock indicates that it was made circa 1855 and the smaller number 37 that it was the 37th tripod clock made.

The example illustrated by Hawkins was also retailed by Hunt & Roskell. By 1855 Hunt & Roskell, along with Garrards and Hancocks, was one of the largest manufacturing and retailing silversmiths in London. The firm's association with Thomas Cole commenced from their earliest days and in 1851 they were exhibiting his work at the Great Exhibition (Hawkins, op. cit. pp. 25-26).

A tripod table clock of related design is illustrated in J.B. Hawkins Thomas Cole & Victorian Clockmaking, Sydney, 1975, pp. 108-9. A similar clock was sold Sotheby's London, 22 June 1999, lot 304.