A GEORGE III GILTWOOD CARTEL CLOCK

SIGNED GEORGE BURGES, LONDON, CIRCA 1770

细节

A GEORGE III GILTWOOD CARTEL CLOCK
Signed George Burges, London, circa 1770
The circular silvered and black enamel dial with Roman and Arabic numerals, within an undulating foliate scrolled, pierced acanthus and foliate-carved case surmounted by a spread-eagle, bearing a 19th century depository label to the reverse Mousell's Depository./No./Gloucester and inscribed 180 Julius, regilt, the movement later
29in. (74cm.) high, 20in. (51cm.) wide

来源

Acquired from J.J. Wolff (Antiques) Ltd., New York.

展览

London, Grosvenor House Antiques Fair, 1959.

拍品专文

A George Burgess is recorded working in Cheapside, London, in circa 1770.

Designed in the French picturesque style of the George III period, this acanthus-scrolled case with flower-festoons, gothic fret embossments and serpentined pediment surmounted by a Roman eagle, relates to patterns for 'Wall Clocks' published in Lock and Copland's A New Book of Ornaments, 1752, pl.12. It also corresponds to a clock by James Scholefield, illustrated in R. Edwards, Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, Andover, 1977, p. 235.

Closely related clocks were sold by Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Slazenger, Powerscourt, Co. Wicklow, Ireland, Christie's house sale, 24-25 September 1984, lot 415 and by The Executors of the Late Sir Philip Shelbourne, Myles Place, Salisbury, Wiltshire, 25-26 October 1993, lot 122.