Beschreibung:

An impressive Victorian rosewood Gothic revival longcase regulator The dial signed for James Condliff, Liverpool, third quarter of the 19th century The substantial four pillar single train movement with slightly tapered spotted plates, five-spoke wheel crossings, high pinion count, Harrison’s maintaining power and deadbeat escapement regulated by seconds pendulum with elaborate triple faceted glass mercury jar pendulum with scroll-shaped steel stirrup assembly, the 18 inch circular brass dial with subsidiary Arabic ten seconds over Roman numeral hour dials and with engraved text Ja’s. Condliff, Fraser Street, LIVERPOOL to centre within outer minute track with Arabic five minutes, the monumental rosewood case with tracery fronted Gothic ogee-shaped pediment over heavy circular cast brass bezel with canted silvered insert enclosing the dial flanked by split pendant finial applied canted angles, the tapered trunk with cavetto throat moulding over conforming ogee-arch topped glazed door with tracery infill to upper and lower margins revealing pendulum bob and beat scale set against a rectangular panel to interior, the angles with canted sections applied with further split pendant finials, on rectangular plinth base with ogee top moulding over twin shaped Gothic arch blind panels and moulded skirt incorporating bracket feet, 269cm (106ins) high. The current lot can be compared with another large longcase regulator timepiece also signed for Condliff, Liverpool and housed in a related Gothic rosewood veneered case which was sold by Pook and Pook, Downingtown, Pennsylvania on 12th October 2013 (lot 1029) for $10,073. Condition report disclaimer