Hyde Park Antiques: Past, Present and Future Part II
Hyde Park Antiques: Past, Present and Future Part II
A Regency Brass-Inlaid Mahogany Tall Case Domestic Regulator by Adey B Savory, London, Circa 1820
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February 1, 06:41 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Regency Brass-Inlaid Mahogany Tall Case Domestic Regulator, by Adey B Savory, London, Circa 1820
12-inch silvered dial with outer minute ring enclosing subsidiary seconds and hours dials and signed Savory, Cornhill, London, the movement with dead beat escapement and Harrison's maintaining power, rack striking on a bell, shouldered plates, the case with lancet top and spire finials above a glazed lancet-shaped trunk door flanked by brass-capped fluted pilasters, the panelled plinth with a plain base, the hood and trunk inlaid with stringing and quatrefoils
height 80 in.
203 cm
Christie's London, 9 June 1999, lot 83
The regulator Dent, No.1 has an identical case to the present clock, illustrated in Vaudrey Mercer, Edward John Dent and his successors, AHS 1977, pp. 58, pl. 11