English Bracket Clock, Beauvais London

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Kollenburg Antiquairs BV
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Name
English Bracket Clock, Beauvais London
Measurements
Height: 35 cm, Width: 27 cm, Depth: 16 cm
Reference
KOLA100275
Techniques
Engraved, Gilded, Shaped, Veneered
Colors
Gold, Gray, Black
Categories
Decorative Arts Clocks Table Clocks
Materials
oak frame veneered with ebony Gilt copper and bronze Brass Bronze Copper Gold Silver Steel
Styles
Louis XV
Periods
18th Century ca. 1730 Antique
Description

Movement
English table clock with VII inch gold-plated brass dial. The silver-plated chapter signed on the bottom: ‘Beauvais London’. Within the chapter ring on a matted plate is a recess for a false pendulum. The hands of blued steel, the two winding holes with twisted decorative rings and a calendar aperture above the VI. Chapter ring surrounded by four gilt corner pieces with cherub spandrels. The seven day spring-driven double-fusee brass movement consists of going and striking trains. The going train has verge escapement with short pendulum and knife-edge suspension. On the right, a pull repeater to release the strike and/ or quarter strike trains. The engraved back plate signed in a cartouche: ‘Paul Beauvais London’.

Case
Simple rectangular case with an oak frame veneered with ebony. The case rests on a flared and profiled plinth supported by four flattened gilt brass feet. On both sides of the door has a key plate shaped as an ornamented cartouche; only the left key plate features a lock behind it. There is also a profiled plinth at the top of the door. The clock is topped by an openwork gilt copper sarcophagus-shaped hood, the so-called basket top. At the corners of the profiled plinth are four gilded bronze pinnacles. The case is surmounted by a handle on basket top for carrying.

Paul Beauvais
Little is known about the clockmaker Paul Beauvais. He worked in Saint-Martin-in-the-Fields until 1730. Paul was presumably a son of the Huguenot Simon Beauvais (? -1730).

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