Lot 288
A Fine George III Ebonized and Brass-Mounted Striking and Musical Eight-Day Table Clock, c. 1765, Stephen Rimbault, London, brass bound bell-top with handle and pineapple finials, front and rear brass-lined doors with engraved brass quarter frets, the sides with brass-lined glazed panels, caryatid mounts to all chamfered corners, plinth base with bracket feet, dial with foliate spandrels and silvered Arabic and Roman chapter ring, the matte center with mock pendulum aperture, date square and applied silvered plaque signed "Stepn. Rimbault/ London", the arch with subsidiary dial for strike/not strike lever, the three-train fusee movement with hour strike on single bell and striking the quarter and hourly music on a nest of eight bells, the heavily engraved backplate with foliate scrolls, birds, and a bouquet, with pendulum holdfast, height 21 in., width 13 in., depth 8 1/2 in Provenance: Collection of Paul Odendahl, New Orleans, LA. Reference: R.C.R. Barder, The Georgian Bracket Clock 1714-1830, Woodbridge, 1999. p. 97.
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