IV Spring 2014 -2 V7.qxd:Layout 1
7/2/14
11:08
Page 25
While the French dominated the production of these popular clocks, those by English makers are particularly desirable due to their scarcity and high quality. A striking and repeating example by James McCabe which has an estimate of £5,000-7,000 ($8,00011,200), demonstrates all the restraint characteristic of McCabe clocks. It has a double fusee movement with a striking and repeating mechanism, Roman numeral dial with McCabe’s characteristic fleurs-de-lys tipped blued steel hands, and numbered 3506, dating it to the mid-19th century. Also of note is a humpback carriage clock with an engine-turned dial and engraved case by Edward John Dent, another Londonbased clockmaker known for producing high quality timepieces during the first part of the 19th century. This example, estimate £3,000-5,000 ($4,800-8,000), with its unusual arched, or humpback, case has an engine-turned silvered Roman numeral dial with subsidiary seconds dial, an 8-day fusee movement and bears serial number 473. The case is further enhanced with finely engraved foliate scrolls and mounted with a turned ivory handle. Other clocks in the collection include a William & Mary oyster veneered and marquetry long case clock by Edmund Appley and Adamson, a late 17th century ebonized bracket clock by Samuel Watson, and 18th century English ebonized bracket clocks by makers Matthew Hill and Peter Wise.
Left: FRENCH GIANT GILT BRASS PENDULE DE VOYAGE BERTHOUD, MID 19TH CENTURY
£7,000-10,000 ($11,200-16,000)
Top right: BRASS REPEATING CARRIAGE CLOCK JAMES MCCABE, NO. 3506, LONDON, MID 19TH CENTURY
£5,000-7,000 ($8,000-11,200)
Bottom right: HUMPBACK NICKEL AND BRASS CARRIAGE CLOCK EDWARD JOHN DENT, LONDON, CIRCA 1835
£3,000-5,000 ($4,800-8,000)
25