A GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED, WHITE MARBLE AND DERBY BISCUIT PORCELAIN CLOCK ON A GEORGE III PAINTED SATINWOOD AND MAHOGANY PEDESTAL THE CLOCK BY BENJAMIN VULLIAMY, THE DERBY BISCUIT PORCELAIN FIGURES BY JOHN DEARE, THE PEDESTAL BY THOMAS BROWNLEY, CIRCA 1791-1793 Depicting Urania and Genius flanking a fluted column inset with a circular enameled dial with an attendant putto holding a sextant and flanked by a broken column and an armillary sphere with the signs of the Zodiac on a stepped plinth with scrolls and assorted scientific tools of observation, with three-train movement having deadbeat escapement, rise and fall regulation, and quarter strike, all within a glazed mahogany case and backed with an ormolu sunburst and resting on a mahogany-crossbanded satinwood pedestal, the door with an oval after Guido Reni's Aurora in the Rospigliosi palace and opening to reveal shelves, on a stepped parcel-ebonized plinth, signed Vulliamy London to the base of the ormolu plinth, the central scroll inscribed Fugit irreparabile tempus Virgil, the movement signed Vulliamy London No. 236, the reverse of the plinth inscribed 203KM, with Ford Inventory No. C13 31 in. (79 cm.) high, 34 in. (86.5 cm.) wide, 14 ½ in. (37 cm.) deep
A GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED, WHITE MARBLE AND DERBY BISCUIT PORCELAIN CLOCK ON A GEORGE III PAINTED SATINWOOD AND MAHOGANY PEDESTAL THE CLOCK BY BENJAMIN VULLIAMY, THE DERBY BISCUIT PORCELAIN FIGURES BY JOHN DEARE, THE PEDESTAL BY THOMAS BROWNLEY, CIRCA 1791-1793 Depicting Urania and Genius flanking a fluted column inset with a circular enameled dial with an attendant putto holding a sextant and flanked by a broken column and an armillary sphere with the signs of the Zodiac on a stepped plinth with scrolls and assorted scientific tools of observation, with three-train movement having deadbeat escapement, rise and fall regulation, and quarter strike, all within a glazed mahogany case and backed with an ormolu sunburst and resting on a mahogany-crossbanded satinwood pedestal, the door with an oval after Guido Reni's Aurora in the Rospigliosi palace and opening to reveal shelves, on a stepped parcel-ebonized plinth, signed Vulliamy London to the base of the ormolu plinth, the central scroll inscribed Fugit irreparabile tempus Virgil, the movement signed Vulliamy London No. 236, the reverse of the plinth inscribed 203KM, with Ford Inventory No. C13 31 in. (79 cm.) high, 34 in. (86.5 cm.) wide, 14 ½ in. (37 cm.) deep
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