Arts & Crafts - 20th June 2012

Lot 405

A rare light oak bracket clock designed by A W N Pugin

Estimate £10,000 - £15,000

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Description

A rare light oak bracket clock designed by A W N Pugin, originally designed for the New Palace of Westminster, rectangular form with carved oak leaf and acorn panels to side and front, below pierced foliate mantle, carved 'Sic Omnia' with enamelled circular dial by S Bone, the dial with a foliate radial frieze 74 x 33cm. Literature A W N Pugin Master of Gothic Revival, Bard Graduate Centre for Studies in the Decorative Arts/Yale Press, catalogue number 87 for a comparable clock.