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George Graham, No.719. A George II small ebony quarter repeating table clock, London, circa 1735

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 EUR

Lot Details

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Description

5½-inch latched dial with silver mask and scroll spandrels, finely matted centre with mock pendulum aperture and date aperture with pin hole adjustment, subsidiary regulation and strike/silent dials flanking the signature Geo: Graham, London, the chain fusee movement with seven latched knopped pillars, pivoted verge escapement with rise and fall regulation, rack striking on a bell and with Tompion-type pull quarter repeating on two bells and operating from both sides via blued steel interconnected levers mounted on the backplate, the plain backplate signed as the dial and numbered along the lower edge 719, the finely moulded case with inverted bell top, gilt handle, foliate door fret and gilt escutcheons


Height 13¾ in.; Haut. 35cm

R.A. Lee in the early 1960s;

Private Collection, UK;

John Carlton Smith, London, 2005.