Live Auction 8023The Opulent Eye - 500 Years Decorative Arts Europe
A VICTORIAN BRASS QUARTER-CHIMING EIGHT DAY WESTMINSTER ABBEY SKELETON CLOCK
Lot 85

A VICTORIAN BRASS QUARTER-CHIMING EIGHT DAY WESTMINSTER ABBEY SKELETON CLOCK

ATTRIBUTED TO EVANS, HANDSWORTH, BIRMINGHAM. RETAILED BY WILLIAM GIBSON, BIRMINGHAM. CIRCA 1865

Closed22 September 2011

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GBP 13,750

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A VICTORIAN BRASS QUARTER-CHIMING EIGHT DAY WESTMINSTER ABBEY SKELETON CLOCK
ATTRIBUTED TO EVANS, HANDSWORTH, BIRMINGHAM. RETAILED BY WILLIAM GIBSON, BIRMINGHAM. CIRCA 1865
DIAL: engraved and silvered chapter ring, blued steel hands MOVEMENT: pierced triple plates, main plates joined by eight double-screwed pillars, triple chain fusees, train wheels with six crossings, anchor escapement, striking the quarters on a nest of eight bells and the hours on a gong, front plate with applied plaques signed 'W.M GIBSON/BELFAST''; on probably replaced stepped white marble plinth and under replaced glass dome; twin mercury jar pendulum
23½ in. (60 cm.) high, excluding glass dome; 15¾ in. (40 cm.) wide; 9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) deep

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
D. Roberts, British Skeleton Clocks, Woodbridge, 1987, p. 65, fig. 2/23 and p. 148, fig.; F.B. Royer-Collard, Skeleton Clocks, London, 1969, p. 5, fig. 1-3.
A Westminster Abbey skeleton clock of closely related design sold Christie's London, from a private collection of English skeleton clocks, 17 March 2011, lot 133 (£11,250). Another sold from the R.O. Schmitt Collection, Christie's New York, 17 June 2005, lot 24 ($36,000).