An impressive gilt brass mounted amboyna musical table clock, the movement and dial by Ellicott circa 1770, the case late 19 th century, the substantial nine pillar triple fusee movement with verge escapement, hour strike on a bell mounted on the backplate and playing a choice of eight melodies every three hours via a 7.25 inch pinned barrel and graduated nest of ten bells transversely mounts across the top of the leafy scroll engraved backplate signed Ellicott, London to centre, the 8 inch arched brass dial with matted centre within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring signed Ellicott, LONDON to the lower margin, pierced steel hands and rococo scroll cast spandrels to angles, the arch with twin subsidiary STRIKE/NOT STRIKE and CHIME/SILENT selection dials within conforming cast brass infill beneath arched silvered tune selection sector for Psalms 23, 417, 115 and 326 together with minuet, dance, song and jig, now in a gilt brass mounted burr amboyna veneered case with generous vase finials to ogee-shaped superstructure incorporating brass grille fret to the plinth upstand over brass-fillet edged glazed dial aperture and conforming upper quadrant frets to front door flaked by female caryatids to the canted angles, the sides with hinged carrying handles over arched apertures, the rear with rectangular glazed door, on generous cavetto moulded skirt base with brass ogee bracket feet, 93cm (36.5ins) high, 43cm (17ins) wide, 32cm (12.5ins) deep John Ellicott F.R.S. is recorded in Baillie, G.H. Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World as born 1706 to John Ellicott senior, a Cornish clockmaker who had gained his Freedom of the Clockmakers' Company in 1696 and died 1733. John junior worked from Swithin's Alley, Royal Exchange, London and was elected member of the Royal Society in 1738. He published works on horology in 1739 and 1753 and is particularly noted for the development of the cylinder escapement and a form of compensated pendulum; he also maintained a private observatory at his home in Hackney. John Ellicott was later appointed as Clockmaker to George III, and took his son, Edward into partnership in 1760 which lasted until his death in 1772. Y - The lot may be subject to CITES regulations when exported
An impressive gilt brass mounted amboyna musical table clock, the movement and dial by Ellicott circa 1770, the case late 19 th century, the substantial nine pillar triple fusee movement with verge escapement, hour strike on a bell mounted on the backplate and playing a choice of eight melodies every three hours via a 7.25 inch pinned barrel and graduated nest of ten bells transversely mounts across the top of the leafy scroll engraved backplate signed Ellicott, London to centre, the 8 inch arched brass dial with matted centre within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring signed Ellicott, LONDON to the lower margin, pierced steel hands and rococo scroll cast spandrels to angles, the arch with twin subsidiary STRIKE/NOT STRIKE and CHIME/SILENT selection dials within conforming cast brass infill beneath arched silvered tune selection sector for Psalms 23, 417, 115 and 326 together with minuet, dance, song and jig, now in a gilt brass mounted burr amboyna veneered case with generous vase finials to ogee-shaped superstructure incorporating brass grille fret to the plinth upstand over brass-fillet edged glazed dial aperture and conforming upper quadrant frets to front door flaked by female caryatids to the canted angles, the sides with hinged carrying handles over arched apertures, the rear with rectangular glazed door, on generous cavetto moulded skirt base with brass ogee bracket feet, 93cm (36.5ins) high, 43cm (17ins) wide, 32cm (12.5ins) deep John Ellicott F.R.S. is recorded in Baillie, G.H. Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World as born 1706 to John Ellicott senior, a Cornish clockmaker who had gained his Freedom of the Clockmakers' Company in 1696 and died 1733. John junior worked from Swithin's Alley, Royal Exchange, London and was elected member of the Royal Society in 1738. He published works on horology in 1739 and 1753 and is particularly noted for the development of the cylinder escapement and a form of compensated pendulum; he also maintained a private observatory at his home in Hackney. John Ellicott was later appointed as Clockmaker to George III, and took his son, Edward into partnership in 1760 which lasted until his death in 1772. Y - The lot may be subject to CITES regulations when exported
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