A George I ebony table clock James Reith, London
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A George I ebony table clock James Reith, London, circa 1720 The five finned pillar twin fusee bell striking movement with fine symmetrical foliate scroll engraved backplate incorporating oval herringbone-bordered cartouche signed James Reith, London to centre the 7.5 inch brass break-arch herringbone border engraved dial with vestigial curved false bob aperture and burnished oval signature cartouche engraved J. Reith, London to the matted centre within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with cruciform half hour markers and Arabic five minutes to outer track, with steel hands and female mask and scroll spandrels to lower angles, the upper angles incorporating subsidiary vestigial regulation and Not Strike/Strike selection sectors beneath calendar dial to arch, the ebony veneered inverted bell-top case with generous hinged brass carrying handle over cavetto top-mouldings and raised surrounds to the dial aperture and upper quadrant panels, the sides with conforming rectangular panels over break-arch windows, the rear with fillet inset break-arch glazed rectangular door incorporating blind quadrant panels set within the frame of the case, on cavetto moulded skirt base with squab feet, (movement with losses and alteration to escapement), 50cm (19.75ins) high excluding handle. Provenance: Pen Moel, near Chepstow. James Reith is recorded in Baillie, G.H. Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World as apprenticed in 1698 and free of the Clockmaker's Company 1705-6. Reith was recruited by Henry Sully to work with him at the watch workshops at Versailles which Sully had established in 1718. Reith became Sully's assistant manager but unfortunately sought to subsequently blame Sully for the low volume of production. Sully left to set up another workshop under a different patron at St. Germain en Laye, which by 1720 had also failed. Relatively few clocks and watches by James Reith are known but all of them are of the highest quality and include an early year going longcase clock with equation of time (illustrated in ANTIQUARIAN HOROLOGY Vol. 19 page 28) and a fine gilt brass mounted burr walnut veneered table clock with three subsidiaries to the full-arch dial. Of his watches a few signed as being made in Versailles are known, including a gold cased example in The Victoria and Albert Museum (Museum Number M.127 ).
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A George I ebony table clock James Reith, London
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