Lot 671
A George III mahogany-cased bracket clock with automaton. Robert Beels, Kings Lynn, circa 1780....
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Lot 671
A George III mahogany-cased bracket clock with automaton. Robert Beels, Kings Lynn, circa 1780....
Lot 671
Lot Description
A George III mahogany-cased bracket clock with automaton. Robert Beels, Kings Lynn, circa 1780. Having a 7" break-arched painted Roman dial inscribed "Rob't Beels KINGS LYNN", the spandrels painted with domestic and wild animals, the arch with a rural landscape depicting a woodcutter, with articulated arm, before a village with articulated windmill sails, the wire-driven twin-fusee movement with foliage-engraved backplate, the anchor escapement and pendulum driving the woodcutter's arm, the windmills sails on a silk thread pulley, the bell with rebated edge for silent option, the caddy-top case with brass carrying handle over moulded door and conforming glazed sides, the latter with circular sound frets, raised on brass ogee bracket feet, 18.5", (47cm) high excluding handle.
Postage: Auction Default
Weight: No
Total lot weight: No
Condition Report
Dial - fresh and bright, suggesting repainting.
Movement - backplate is unsigned. Alterations to pendulum crutch to govern woodcutter arm are quite crude, but probably original.
Case - has a nice warm colour and is in good order.
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