A GEORGE III ORMOLU CARTEL CLOCK by Matthew Boulton, the circular enamelled dial with both Roman and Arabic numerals flanked by two entwined winged nymphs with scrolling foliate tails, the central drum issuing a reeded and gadrooned spray with palmette finial, the later movement stamped 16731 LEPINE A PARIS 14/4/62/2 MEDAILLE D'OR PARIS 1827

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A GEORGE III ORMOLU CARTEL CLOCK by Matthew Boulton, the circular enamelled dial with both Roman and Arabic numerals flanked by two entwined winged nymphs with scrolling foliate tails, the central drum issuing a reeded and gadrooned spray with palmette finial, the later movement stamped 16731 LEPINE A PARIS 14/4/62/2 MEDAILLE D'OR PARIS 1827
8½in. (22cm.) wide; 15½in. (39.5cm.) high

拍品专文

A design for a wall-clock, borne by addorsed victories of winged 'nike' figures emerging from entwined and husk-festooned Roman acanthus-foliage in the 'antique' or arabesque manner, features in the 1770s pattern-books of Messrs. Boulton and Fothergill of Birmingham (see: N. Goodison, Ormolu, The Work of Matthew Boulton, London, 1974, fig. 166, no. Q). The Boulton mss. (Birmingham City Art Gallery) also include a 1782 stock inventory, which lists the cost of ¨2.10.0. for 14½ days chasing a 'Winged figure clock'. Boulton's 1782 inventory also included ¨0.6.10 for '1 metal model for a French clock', while in 1780 Boulton had received a letter from his London manager John Hodges stating that at the shop of Boulton's relation Joseph Dyott, there was a 'Wainscot clock case number 308 at 14 guineas, which was sent to him as a specimen of workmanship and color of gilding' (see: N. Goodison, op. cit., p. 104). The latter number corresponds to that inscribed on Boulton's clock pattern