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FINE CLOCKS Thursday 29 June 2017 FINE CLOCKS Thursday 29 June at 2pm 101 New Bond Street, London VIEWING BIDS ENQUIRIES CUSTOMER SERVICES Sunday 25 June +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 James Stratton M.R.I.C.S Monday to Friday 11am to 3pm +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax + 44 (0) 20 7468 8364 8.30am to 6pm Monday 26 June To bid via the internet please [email protected] +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 9am to 4.30pm visit bonhams.com Tuesday 27 June Charles Crisford As a courtesy to intending 9am to 4.30pm Please note that bids should be +44 (0) 20 7468 8371 bidders, Bonhams will provide a Wednesday 28 June submitted no later than 4pm on [email protected] written Indication of the physical 9am to 4.30pm the day prior to the sale. condition of lots in this sale if a Thursday 29 June New bidders must also provide request is received up to 24 9am to 12pm proof of identity when submitting hours before the auction starts. bids. Failure to do this may result This written Indication is issued SALE NUMBER in your bids not being processed. subject to Clause 3 of the Notice 24221 to Bidders. Bidding by telephone will only be CATALOGUE accepted on lots with a low Please see back of catalogue estimate in excess of £1,000 for important notice to bidders £20.00 Live online bidding is ILLUSTRATIONS available for this sale Front cover: Lot 63 Please email [email protected] Back cover: Lot 73 with “Live bidding” in the subject Inside back cover: Lot 33 line 48 hours before the auction to register for this service. IMPORTANT INFORMATION The United States Government has banned the import of ivory into the USA. Lots containing ivory are indicated by the symbol Ф printed beside the lot number in this catalogue. Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams International Board Bonhams UK Ltd Directors Registered No. 4326560 Robert Brooks Co-Chairman, Colin Sheaf Chairman, Gordon McFarlan, Andrew McKenzie, Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Malcolm Barber Co-Chairman, Harvey Cammell Deputy Chairman, Simon Mitchell, Jeff Muse, Mike Neill, Montpelier Street, London SW7 1HH Colin Sheaf Deputy Chairman, Antony Bennett, Matthew Bradbury, Charlie O’Brien, Giles Peppiatt, India Phillips, Matthew Girling CEO, Lucinda Bredin, Simon Cottle, Andrew Currie, Peter Rees, John Sandon, Tim Schofield, +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 Patrick Meade Group Vice Chairman, Jean Ghika, Charles Graham-Campbell, Veronique Scorer, Robert Smith, James Stratton, +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Jon Baddeley, Rupert Banner, Geoffrey Davies, Matthew Haley, Richard Harvey, Robin Hereford, Ralph Taylor, Charlie Thomas, David Williams, Jonathan Fairhurst, Asaph Hyman, James Knight, David Johnson, Charles Lanning, Miranda Leslie, Michael Wynell-Mayow, Suzannah Yip. Caroline Oliphant, Shahin Virani, Edward Wilkinson, Leslie Wright. SALE Central Middlesex Acton Ln Hospital Park Royal INFORMATION Acton Ln Cadogan Tate Coronation Road W e d s P a te a o r r n R k A v e R e s A o 40 a y h a Park l C Royal iWestern Ave A40 R o Station a 0 d 0 Acton 0 North 4 Cemetery A Acton d Station a o R a i r o t c i V West Acton Horn Lane Station BIDS COLLECTION STORAGE AND HANDLING VAT +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Sold lots marked TP will be available CHARGES ON SOLD LOTS Will be applied at the current +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax for collection from Cadogan Tate RETURNED TO CADOGAN TATE rate on all above charges. To bid via the internet please visit from 12pm Monday 3 July 2017 and www.bonhams.com then every working day between Storage The following symbol is 9am-4.30pm. Collections are by Storage will be free of charge used to denote that VAT PAYMENTS appointment only & a booking email for the first 14 calendar days is due on the hammer price Buyers or phone call are required in advance from & including the sale date and buyer’s premium +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 to ensure lots are ready at time of Thursday 29 June 2017 +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax collection. † VAT 20% on hammer price Charges will apply from 9am and buyer’s premium Sellers Photographic id will be required at Thursday 13 July 2017. Payment of sale proceeds time of collection & if a third party is * VAT on imported items at +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 collecting written authorisation from Pictures and small objects: a preferential rate of 5% on +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax the successful buyer is required in £2.85 per day + VAT hammer price and the advance. Furniture, large pictures prevailing rate on buyer’s premium VALUATIONS, and large objects: TAXATION & HERITAGE Photographic id of the third party will £5.70 per day+ VAT Y These lots are subject to +44 (0) 20 7468 8340 requested at the time of collection. (Note: Charges apply every day CITES regulations, please +44 (0) 20 7468 5860 fax To arrange a collection time including weekends and Public read the information in the [email protected] please send a booking email to: Holidays) back of the catalogue. [email protected] or CATALOGUE SUBSCRIPTIONS telephone call to +44 (0)800 988 Handling IMPORTANT NOTICE To obtain any Bonhams 6100 to ensure lots are ready at After the first 14 calendar days A surcharge of 2% is applicable catalogue or to take out time of collection. following the sale the following when using MasterCard & Visa an annual subscription: handling charges apply per Lot: credit cards and overseas debit Subscriptions Department All other sold lots will remain in Pictures and Large objects: cards. +44 (0) 1666 502200 the Collections room at Bonhams £21.00+ VAT +44 (0) 1666 505107 fax New Bond Street until 5.30pm Large pictures £42.00+ VAT Payment [email protected] Thursday 13 July 2017. All charges due to Cadogan Lots not collected by this time will Loss and Damage Tate may be paid to them in advance SHIPPING be returned back to the department Extended Liability cover for the value or at the time of collection from their For information and estimates storage charges may apply. of the Hammer Price will be charged warehouse. Payment may be made on domestic and international at 0.6% but will not exceed the total by cash, cheque with banker’s card, shipping as well as export value of all other transfer and credit, or debit card (Please note: licenses please contact Alban storage charges. Amex is not accepted). Shipping on +44 (0) 1582 493 099 [email protected] Information on charges due is available by email at BUYERS COLLECTION & [email protected] STORAGE AFTER SALE or telephone on LOTS MARKED TP +44 (0) 800 988 6100 All sold lots marked TP will be removed to Cadogan Tate, 241 Acton Lane, London, NW10 7NP Payment in Advance from 12pm Friday 30 June (Telephone to ascertain amount due) 2017. by: cash, cheque with banker’s card, credit or debit card. Payment at time of collection by: cash, cheque with banker’s card, credit or debit card. FINE CLOCKS Lots 1 - 121 1 A LATE 19TH CENTURY FRENCH PORCELAIN PANELLED CARRIAGE CLOCK Richard & Cie, Paris The corniche case engraved with foliate scrolls and strapwork, the sides set with blue ground porcelain panels decorated with females in 18th century costume within jewelled and gilt borders, the Roman dial with conforming decoration and retailers name ‘Rhodes and Son, Paris and Bradford’ the two train movement with silvered lever platform escapement, striking the hours and half hours on a coiled steel gong, the backplate struck with a caduceus flanked by the initials RC. 17cm (6.75in) £2,500 - 3,500 €2,900 - 4,000 US$3,200 - 4,500 Porcelain mounted carriage clocks of this type are discussed in detail in Derek Robert’s (1974) Carriage and Other Travelling Clocks. Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing; chapter 10. 1 2 A GOOD LATE 19TH CENTURY FRENCH PORCELAIN PANELLED ENGRAVED BRASS CARRIAGE CLOCK The gorge case with hinged handle, over the frame engraved with flowers and foliage, the sides and door panel mounted with pink ground porcelain panels, each decorated with putti amongst clouds, within blue enamel ‘jewelled’ and gilt borders, the Roman dial with conforming decoration to the centre, with jewelled and gilt foliate border, the two train spring barrel movement with lever platform escapement, striking and repeating on a single blued steel gong. Together with a leather travelling case. 16cm (6.25in) £4,000 - 6,000 €4,600 - 6,900 US$5,100 - 7,700 Porcelain mounted carriage clocks of this type are discussed in detail in Derek Robert’s (1974) Carriage and Other Travelling Clocks. Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing; chapter 10. 2 For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot 4 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. 3 4 * A LATE 19TH CENTURY FRENCH CARRIAGE CLOCK AND A FINE AND VERY RARE LATE 19TH CENTURY FRENCH OUTER CASE ENGRAVED BRASS, PORCELAIN PANELLED GIANT Breguet 294 CARRIAGE TIMEPIECE WITH COMPENDIUM BAROMETER, The gilt and silvered Anglais case with tied bud handle and conforming THERMOMETER AND COMPASS pillars, the top glass engraved with a coronet and ‘L’,the porcelain Drocourt, 16632 side panels each decorated with a female figure in medieval costume the gorge case with bold rippled handle over an inset compass with within a garden, the Roman dial with Gothic numerals within gilt blued steel needle set within the recessed top panel, the case further borders over the subsidiary alarm setting dial, on a ground painted engraved with running foliage and flower heads on alternate burnished with a landscape, the signed and numbered two train movement with and matted grounds, the two sides set with rectangular polychrome cut and compensated bi-metallic balance to the silvered lever platform porcelain panels depicting 18th century rural couples within turquoise escapement, striking the hour and half hour on a coiled steel gong; ‘jewelled’ borders, the 2.25 inch silvered Roman dial with blued steel together with the original fitted leather case, signed and numbered on moon hands set above a matching aneroid barometer dial, and flanked the underside ‘Breguet, 12 Rue de la Paix 12, Paris’ within a border by twin mercury thermometers engraved with Reamur and Fahrenheit over ‘N.