A REGENCY EBONY-INLAID MAHOGANY LONGCASE REGULATOR FOR THE TURKISH MARKET markwick markham borrell london, circa 1810 The 10in. circular dial with a florally painted and gilt narrow ring securing the white enamel regulator dial with Turkish chapters, well sculpted blued steel hands, signed in the center Markwick Markham Borrell London , the movement with upright thick brass plates with halfway shoulders, six robust pillars, the wheel train end-capped throughout and with six crossings and Harrison's maintaining power, Graham-type deadbeat escapement with fine adjustment at the top of the crutch piece with anti-friction device to the steel rod pendulum suspended from the backboard within an unusual adjustable brass bracket, the mercury jar within a polished steel frame with silvered calibrated rating nut and terminating with a steel pointer swinging against a silvered beat scale, the well-proportioned case with gadrooned and ebony-inlaid shallow-arched top, stop-chamfered angles flanking the dial, similar chamfered angles to the ebony beaded and brass-lined glazed trunk door, the double-footed plinth with an ebony beaded panel to the front 75¾in. (192.5cm.) high
A REGENCY EBONY-INLAID MAHOGANY LONGCASE REGULATOR FOR THE TURKISH MARKET markwick markham borrell london, circa 1810 The 10in. circular dial with a florally painted and gilt narrow ring securing the white enamel regulator dial with Turkish chapters, well sculpted blued steel hands, signed in the center Markwick Markham Borrell London , the movement with upright thick brass plates with halfway shoulders, six robust pillars, the wheel train end-capped throughout and with six crossings and Harrison's maintaining power, Graham-type deadbeat escapement with fine adjustment at the top of the crutch piece with anti-friction device to the steel rod pendulum suspended from the backboard within an unusual adjustable brass bracket, the mercury jar within a polished steel frame with silvered calibrated rating nut and terminating with a steel pointer swinging against a silvered beat scale, the well-proportioned case with gadrooned and ebony-inlaid shallow-arched top, stop-chamfered angles flanking the dial, similar chamfered angles to the ebony beaded and brass-lined glazed trunk door, the double-footed plinth with an ebony beaded panel to the front 75¾in. (192.5cm.) high
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