A FINE VICTORIAN GILT BRASS GIANT CARRIAGE CLOCK WITH PUSH-BUTTON REPEAT PAYNE AND COMPANY, LONDON, LATE 19th CENTURY The eight-day two train four pillar gong striking movement with substantial frosted gilt platform lever escapement regulated by sprung split bimetallic balance and with jewelled pivots, the platform table engraved No. 69683 and Fast/Slow regulation adjustment indication, the backplate signed Payne & Co.163 New Bond St., LONDON to centre and numbered 48, 62864 to lower edge, the 2.75 inch circular engine turned silvered Roman numeral dial with small concentric arched panel inscribed PAYNE & Co.163 New Bond St. LONDON to the upper margin of the fine diamond hatched centre, the outer track with dot minute markers interrupted by Arabic five minutes, with blued steel moon hands and set into a fine rococo foliate scroll engraved shallow arch mask, the heavy frosted gilt bevel-glazed case with hinged stylised reed tied carrying handle over large thick glass and bead bordered cavetto moulding to top the front with shallow arch glazed dial aperture incorporating angled brass fillet to interior flanked by canted angle uprights with applied reeded decoration to lower sections and outswept bases, the sides with fine scroll engraved rectangular panels set behind bevelled glasses, the rear with lift-out panel incorporating shuttered winding and hand adjustment square apertures, on stepped skirt base with reeded squab feet. 21.5cm (8.5ins) high with handle down, 15.5cm (6.125ins) wide, 12.5cm (5ins) deep. Literature: The current lot is illustrated in Roberts, Derek CARRIAGE and Other Travelling CLOCKS on page 344 (Figs. 23-24). William Payne recorded in Roberts, Derek CARRIAGE and Other Travelling CLOCKS as first working from at 62 South Moulton Street London in 1816. By 1825 he had moved to 163 New Bond Street where the company remained until the 20th century. William Payne & Company, watch, clock and pedometer makers appear in trade directories from 1852 specialising in finely finished carriage and small mantel clocks as well as watches and pedometers, and were one of only five English makers to exhibit carriage clocks in the 1862 London Exhibition. Their clocks often feature rich engraving, and it thought that through their close associations with Thomas Cole that they may well have employed the same engravers for some of their work. The case of the current lot is of a pattern also used by Dent (see Allix, Charles and Bonnert, Peter CARRIAGE CLOCKS Their History and development page 262; Plate IX/38 and Roberts page 318; Fig 21) and is particularly pleasing in the way that its bold, robust and confident design (almost appearing Art Deco in its form) provides the perfect enclosure for the fine jewel-like engraved panels set behind thick protective glasses.
A FINE VICTORIAN GILT BRASS GIANT CARRIAGE CLOCK WITH PUSH-BUTTON REPEAT PAYNE AND COMPANY, LONDON, LATE 19th CENTURY The eight-day two train four pillar gong striking movement with substantial frosted gilt platform lever escapement regulated by sprung split bimetallic balance and with jewelled pivots, the platform table engraved No. 69683 and Fast/Slow regulation adjustment indication, the backplate signed Payne & Co.163 New Bond St., LONDON to centre and numbered 48, 62864 to lower edge, the 2.75 inch circular engine turned silvered Roman numeral dial with small concentric arched panel inscribed PAYNE & Co.163 New Bond St. LONDON to the upper margin of the fine diamond hatched centre, the outer track with dot minute markers interrupted by Arabic five minutes, with blued steel moon hands and set into a fine rococo foliate scroll engraved shallow arch mask, the heavy frosted gilt bevel-glazed case with hinged stylised reed tied carrying handle over large thick glass and bead bordered cavetto moulding to top the front with shallow arch glazed dial aperture incorporating angled brass fillet to interior flanked by canted angle uprights with applied reeded decoration to lower sections and outswept bases, the sides with fine scroll engraved rectangular panels set behind bevelled glasses, the rear with lift-out panel incorporating shuttered winding and hand adjustment square apertures, on stepped skirt base with reeded squab feet. 21.5cm (8.5ins) high with handle down, 15.5cm (6.125ins) wide, 12.5cm (5ins) deep. Literature: The current lot is illustrated in Roberts, Derek CARRIAGE and Other Travelling CLOCKS on page 344 (Figs. 23-24). William Payne recorded in Roberts, Derek CARRIAGE and Other Travelling CLOCKS as first working from at 62 South Moulton Street London in 1816. By 1825 he had moved to 163 New Bond Street where the company remained until the 20th century. William Payne & Company, watch, clock and pedometer makers appear in trade directories from 1852 specialising in finely finished carriage and small mantel clocks as well as watches and pedometers, and were one of only five English makers to exhibit carriage clocks in the 1862 London Exhibition. Their clocks often feature rich engraving, and it thought that through their close associations with Thomas Cole that they may well have employed the same engravers for some of their work. The case of the current lot is of a pattern also used by Dent (see Allix, Charles and Bonnert, Peter CARRIAGE CLOCKS Their History and development page 262; Plate IX/38 and Roberts page 318; Fig 21) and is particularly pleasing in the way that its bold, robust and confident design (almost appearing Art Deco in its form) provides the perfect enclosure for the fine jewel-like engraved panels set behind thick protective glasses.
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