95th Auction
2017/5/6
Lot 294
Benjamin Ward, London, Movement No. 1202, Case No. 1202, 90 mm, 456 g, circa 1800
A decorative, small pair-cased coach clock with quarter hour / hour self strike and centre seconds with hack feature for the Chinese market
Case: Outer case - bronze/gilt, open-work decoration around the edges, engraved musical instruments and military equipment. Inner case - bronze/gilt, back with engraved flower bush; open-work rim with scrolls and mascaron ornament; movement protection cap, rear bell. Dial: enamel. Movm.: full plate movement, 2 barrels, chain/fusee, 2 hammers, three-arm steel balance.
Benjamin Ward was working in London between circa 1765 and 1790 (Norton Folgate) and between circa 1799 and 1808 in St. George's Fields. According to Baillie in Clockmakers of the World Vol. 1, there are two musical automaton bracket clocks by this maker in The Forbidden City in Beijing.
A decorative, small pair-cased coach clock with quarter hour / hour self strike and centre seconds with hack feature for the Chinese market
Case: Outer case - bronze/gilt, open-work decoration around the edges, engraved musical instruments and military equipment. Inner case - bronze/gilt, back with engraved flower bush; open-work rim with scrolls and mascaron ornament; movement protection cap, rear bell. Dial: enamel. Movm.: full plate movement, 2 barrels, chain/fusee, 2 hammers, three-arm steel balance.
Benjamin Ward was working in London between circa 1765 and 1790 (Norton Folgate) and between circa 1799 and 1808 in St. George's Fields. According to Baillie in Clockmakers of the World Vol. 1, there are two musical automaton bracket clocks by this maker in The Forbidden City in Beijing.
Sold
estimated
2.000—8.000 €
Price realized
5.600 €