Lot 203
WILLIAM IV ROSEWOOD MANTEL CLOCK, ALEXANDER PURVIS, NORTH AUDLEY STREET, LONDON Y
CIRCA 1830
Auction: Five Centuries Day One | Wed 11th November | Lots 1 to 322
Description
the arched and silvered dial engraved with a Roman chapter ring and signed in the centre ‘Alexr. Purvis, North Audley St, London’, with blued steel pierced heart hands, with engraved lower floral spandrels below the dial, the rectangular case surmounted by a brass berry finial to the stepped and gadrooned top, ripple moulded cornices, glazed arch side panels, the front door with brass inlaid chamfered angles and gadrooned bats' wing mouldings to the top, with Moorish arch door and conforming silvered bezel, on stepped base raised on bun feet, the twin train gut fusee movement with anchor escapement and strike on bell, the backplate with signature and pendulum holdfast
Dimensions
31cm high, 18cm wide, 13cm deep
Footnote
Alexander Purvis was working in North Audley St, Grosvenor Square between 1810 and 1845 and is recorded on page 632 of Brian Loomes’s Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World: Complete 21st Century edition