Dr John C Taylor Clocks Collection up for Sale
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7 1 -2 0 2 1 9 1 ISSUE 2490 | antiquestradegazette.com | 1 May 2021 | UK £4.99 | USA $7.95 | Europe €5.50 S E E R 50years D koopman rare art V A I R N T antiques trade G T H E KOOPMAN (see Client Templates for issue versions) THE ART M ARKET WEEKLY [email protected] +44 (0)20 7242 7624 www.koopman.art Dr John C Taylor clocks collection up for sale by Roland Arkell It is his desire to see the pieces dispersed in the market where they can be enjoyed by generations of collectors and enthusiasts Perhaps the finest assemblage of rather than left en bloc to an institution. Left: the late 16th or English clocks in private hands goes on early 17th century sale in the summer at Winchester Stellar material Florentine bronze dealership Carter Marsh. The cache of stellar material is evidence that, model of a strutting The collection of Isle of Man entrepreneur with so many eyes turned to more fashionable ostrich, catalogued and horologist Dr John C Taylor (b.1936) disciplines, recent decades have been a mini- as ‘workshop of includes some of the best Golden Age and golden age for committed horology Giambologna’ – precision timekeepers that have come to collectors. £1.41m at Cheffins. market in the past 40 years. “In almost every single area he has the Dr Taylor, the subject of a profile inATG best of everything” says Carter. It also No 2232, is best known for inventing the betrays Taylor’s appreciation of practical and bi-metallic thermostat used in every electric inventive expertise – an era when the tumult kettle. Beginning his collecting odyssey in of politics was mirrored by the white heat of the mid-1970s, he has – says Carter Marsh scientific development. director Jonathan Carter – “chosen to oversee the release of his collection at the age of 85 as he is a very practical man”. Continued on page 4 Left: the Mudge Green, last sold by Sotheby’s in 2004 as part of the Time Museum auction series for $1.24m, will be priced at £1.2m Ostrich ruffles when Carter Marsh offers the first part of the Dr John C Taylor collection in June. Dated 1777, this is one of two feathers at £1.41m shagreen-cased marine timekeepers made by Thomas Mudge during by Alex Capon retirement as he sought to win the Longitude Prize. Although Mudge was A bronze sculpture of an ostrich catalogued as from the eventually given a share of the award, workshop of Mannerist sculptor Giambologna drew an his matching chronometers were extraordinary competition at Cheffins in Cambridge. so precisely made that they proved Offered with an estimate of £80,000-120,000 on the second impossible for other watchmakers day of the April 21-22 auction, it took over 20 minutes to sell as a to replicate – a requirement of the bidder in the room and another on the phone went head to head, Admiralty, hoping to make multiple at times with the lot rising in increments of £5000. It was copies of the prize winner. 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Sign up today for FREE and stay one step ahead antiquestradegazette.com/morningbriefing 2 | 1 May 2021 antiquestradegazette.com PAGE 002 2490.indd 1 23/04/2021 12:10:01 WWAd04-104 ATG 244x335mm.qxp_Layout 1 16/04/2021 15:09 Page 1 MODERN BRITISH & 20TH CENTURY ART TUESDAY 11TH & WEDNESDAY 12TH MAY 2021 AT 10AM Algernon Newton RA (18801968) Lynn Chadwick CBE, RA (19142003) Regent's Canal, Paddington (detail) Pair of Cloaked Figures III Signed with monogram and dated 40 (lower left) Each signed dated and numbered C/77/765/5/8 Oil on canvas, 50.8 x 76.2cm Bronze, Male figure 17.1 x 19cm; Female figure 17.5 x 15.5cm (2) Estimate £25,00035,000* Estimate £30,00040,000* Sir Kyffin Williams OBE, RA (Welsh 19182006) Roderic O'Conor (Irish 18601940) Standing stones at Penrhos Feilw (detail) Seated Nude (Le modèle assis) (detail) Signed with initialsKW . (lower left) Stamped with studio stamp atelier/O CONOR (on the reverse) Oil on canvas, 60.9 x 91.5cm Oil on canvas, 92 x 73.5cm Estimate £15,00020,000* Estimate £30,00050,000* Part of a Private Collection of 81 Welsh Paintings Viewing by appointment only ENQUIRIES Victor Fauvelle | +44 (0)1722 446961 | [email protected] 5161 Castle Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP1 3SU www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk LIVE *Visit woolleyandwallis.co.uk/buying for additional charges on final hammer price PAGE 003 2490.indd 1 22/04/2021 13:52:39 News Dr John C Taylor clocks for sale Continued from front page Photo:Simon Park Right: among all the pioneering English “His mind doesn’t clockmakers, Dr John C Taylor admires necessarily work in the same Ahasuerus Fromanteel in particular. way as other collectors. He This relatively recent discovery, at approaches the subject through c.1665 a candidate for the first-ever the mind of the clockmakers true bracket clock, was found in a riad themselves,” says Carter. in Marrakech. Signed to the backplate “His great passion is very Johannes Fromanteel Londini Fecit, the much still there and in our case, to a design attributed to John many conversations during Webb (1611-72), is made of Brazilian cataloguing the reasons why he rosewood. Sold to Taylor by dealership bought the pieces come to the Bobinet in 2013 for £450,000, it is fore.” Highlights of Part I of the reoffered by Carter Marsh with a price The dispersal of more than Dr John C Taylor collection tag of £375,000. 150 clocks, watches and instruments will be conducted via a number of catalogued Thomas Tompion across his Left: priced at £120,000 is the Calcutta Earnshaw c.1792, an observatory selling exhibitions. career, it was bought for $2.1m regulator made by Thomas Earnshaw to a pattern first used by the The dealership used a at Sotheby’s Masterpieces from Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne for the observatory at Armagh. similar model when offering the Time Museum sale in Maskelyne had suggested that the case for the regulator (which survives the £15m collection of the 1999. Taylor also owns two in situ) should be as close fitting as possible and Earnshaw promised it Channel Islands businessman other Tompion clocks from the would be almost airtight, sealed from outside disturbance by a series Tom Scott (1944-2012) – full grande sonnerie series, of brass screws.