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Circa 1825
Sold
6 ½ inches high
A very fine English carriage clock with exceptionally well-engraved case and platform lever escapement. Case With fine quality foliate cast outset columns surmounted by well-cast leaf bud finials, well-cast folding handle to the top inset with an escapement viewing aperture, the silvered side panels are finely engraved with interesting landscapes, solid rear door, the base engraved 1262 resting on bun feet. Dial Engraved with a central landscape within the silvered Roman chapter disc with blued steel fleur de lys hands and all within a gilt-brass mask. Movement With four cylindrical pillars, single chain fusee with maintaining power, platform lever escapement with foliate-engraved balance cock, the backplate signed Dent 82 Strand London No. 543. Edward John Dent, 1790-1853, the maker of the movement of the present clock was one of England's greatest Victorian clockmakers; famous for making both domestic and precision clocks, exceptional pocket watches and the finest observatory-quality marine chronometers. Perhaps his most famous achievement was winning the commission for the making of the turret clock, otherwise known as Big Ben for the Houses of Parliament at Westminster. The very distinctive case of the present clock can be firmly attributed to the workshops of the famous Victorian decorative clockmaker Thomas Cole. The casting and engraving is of the finest quality and there are 2 further almost identical clock cases illustrated in Carriage and other Carriage clocks by Derek Roberts, pp. 272 & 272, one retailed by French and the other unsigned but both of attributed to Thomas Cole.