Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

A GEORGE III CHINOISERIE DECORATED BLACK JAPANNED TAVERN WALL TIMEPIECE

SIGNED FOR COWLEY, LONDON, C.1780

the four pillar weight-driven movement with a five-wheel train, the anchor escapement regulated by seconds pendulum and tapered plates, the circular cream painted slightly convex wooden dial with Arabic numerals and decorative scroll-pierced brass spade hands, within a black and gilt stepped ogee moulded surround and secured to the drop-trunk case with pegs, the case with side doors behind the dial over gilt signature 'Cowley, OXFORD STREET' flanked by gilt floral trail painted scroll-outline ears, over concave-topped rectangular door decorated in varying shades of gilt with raised chinoiserie figures within a garden trellis landscape (finish with restoration)

139cm high, 58.5cm wide, 18cm deep

Catalogue Note

A clockmaker with the surname Cowley does not appear to be recorded in the usual sources as working in London during the late 18th century.