Lot 211
A fine Regency period mahogany and brass musical and quarter chiming bracket clock By Barrauds of London
Auction: 19 March 2008 at 11:00 GMT
Description
the enamelled dial with Roman chapters signed Barrauds, Cornhill, London and numbered '867', the arch with subsidiary dials for chime/silent and six tune selections, the similarly signed three train fusee and chain movement with anchor escapement, chiming the quarters on ten bells and playing one of six tunes at every hour on thirteen bells, the backplate and the pendulum bordered by foliate engraving, the pagoda top case with ball finials, fish scale fretted frieze above two similarly fretted door panels, the arched and glazed front between brass strung canted uprights flanked by twin pull-cords and leaf cast carrying handles, the skirted brass bound apron on brass ball feet
Dimensions
35cm wide, 65cm high, 25cm deep
Footnote
Literature: see Cedric Jagger, Paul Philip Barraud Antiquarian Horological Society 1968, and the supplement of 1979.