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Edward Tutet, Fenchurch Street, London Circa 1770

Edward Tutet, Fenchurch Street, London Circa 1770

A small and rare George III brass-bound mahogany quarter striking table clock with enamel dials.

£48,000


Height

12 inches

Case

Mahogany inverted bell shaped top with four flame finials and surmounted by a gilt handle, the front door with brass stopped fluted and canted corners and finely engraved and pierced brass quarter frets flanking the break-arch dial aperture with matching sound frets to the sides, the brass-banded double skirted base on ogee bracket feet.

Dial

4½  by 6 inch break-arch dial plate with a vitreous enamel chapter ring flanked by foliate spandrels and semi-circular enamel subsidiary dial to the arch signed Edward Tutet, Fenchurch Street, the left-hand subsidiary with rise and fall for pendulum regulation, the right for strike/silent.

Movement

Triple fusee chain driven movement fills the back of the case, The verge and crownwheel escapement with bridged pendulum regulation, the quarter train  striking on two bells with the hours rack striking on a further bell. The backplate fully engraved with foliate scrolls with a mask to the centre signed Edward Tutet, London.

Duration

8 days

Provenance

Private collection UK

Comparative Literature

The Wetherfield Collection of Clocks E. Bruton, 1981, p. 21.

Edward Tutet, London

Edward Tutet (d. 1792) was apprenticed in 1754 and made a Freeman of the Clockmakers’ Company in 1765 eventually becoming Master of the Company in 1786.

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Edward Tutet, London

Edward Tutet (d. 1792) was apprenticed in 1754 and made a Freeman of the Clockmakers’ Company in 1765 eventually becoming Master of the Company in 1786.

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Dimensions 5827373 cm