£3,750
Five Centuries: Furniture, Paintings & Works of Art from 1600 | 580
Auction: 20 November 2019 at 10:00 GMT
the bell top case fitted with a brass carrying handle and four pineapple brass finials, above the gilt break-arch dial plate with a silvered chapter ring with Roman numerals, enclosing a signed aperture HUGH GORDON/ ABERDEEN and a date aperture, with a subsidiary STRIKE/SILENT dial to the arch and engraved plate, within a glazed case, the eight-day movement striking a bell, with verge escapement and bob-pendulum, the floral engraved backplate signed HUGH GORDON/ ABERDEEN, on a moulded plinth base and short feet
Note: Hugh Gordon was working in Aberdeen from 1748-90, having previously worked in Edinburgh and London. He seems to have been a very proficient maker although little of his work has apparently survived.