A FINE GEORGE III BLACK CHINOISERIE JAPANNED TAVERN WALL TIMEPIECE
PHILIP LLOYD, BRISTOL, CIRCA 1775
The four pillar weight-driven movement with five-wheel train, anchor escapement regulated by seconds pendulum and tapered plates, the 24 inch wide gilt on black painted shield-shaped Roman numeral dial with Arabic five minutes beyond the outer minute track and brass spade hands, the lower margin with foliate scroll painted spandrel decoration over signature P. Lloyd, BRISTOL, within gilt line and leaf painted break-arch cavetto moulded surround applied with gilt finials to upper corners and secured to the drop-trunk case with four steel pins, the case with lift-out panels to the side apertures over concave throat moulding and break-arch door decorated in polychrome and gilt with oriental figures within a garden trellis landscape, line borders and raised edge mouldings, the surround with diamond trellis infill to upper quadrants over chevron and leafy trail banded borders, the sides with oversize floral sprays and the base of stepped ogee profile decorated with further conforming foliate decorated panels; together with copies of Gatto, Martin THE TAVERN CLOCK Tavernicus Publishing Bath 2010, dj; Gatto, Martin THE TAVERNICUS TAVERN CLOCK ARCHIVE, Together with Random Jottings Bath 2017, softbound; Gatto, Martin THE TAVERNICUS TAVERN CLOCK ARCHIVE, EXTENDED EDITION Bath 2021, and Rose, Ronald E. English DIAL CLOCKS Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge 1994, dj, (5).
155cm (61ins) high, 75cm (29.5ins) wide, 20cm (8ins) deep.
Provenance:
From the private collection of a professional sportsman and commentator.
The life and work of Philip Lloyd is discussed by Brian Loomes in his article PHILIP LLOYD of Llawhaden and Bristol published in the July 2022 issue of 'CLOCKS' magazine. Loomes notes the Lloyd was a Quaker born in Llawhaden in around 1726 where he set-up business as a clockmaker. He is thought to have married Elizabeth Beverstock at St. Martin's in the Fields, London, 1758, and it is likely that he was already working in Bristol by this time. He was a fine maker producing longcase clocks in the high 'Bristol' style often incorporating lunar and tidal indications and at least one more tavern clock by him is known. He was recorded as a 'Watchmaker of Clifton Parish' on his death in 1783. His widow, Sarah, died at the age of 65 in 1789 and was buried at Love Street, Bristol.
The present timepiece is recorded in Gatto, Martin THE TAVERNICUS TAVERN CLOCK ARCHIVE, EXTENDED EDITION page 178.
A FINE GEORGE III BLACK CHINOISERIE JAPANNED TAVERN WALL TIMEPIECE
PHILIP LLOYD, BRISTOL, CIRCA 1775
The four pillar weight-driven movement with five-wheel train, anchor escapement regulated by seconds pendulum and tapered plates, the 24 inch wide gilt on black painted shield-shaped Roman numeral dial with Arabic five minutes beyond the outer minute track and brass spade hands, the lower margin with foliate scroll painted spandrel decoration over signature P. Lloyd, BRISTOL, within gilt line and leaf painted break-arch cavetto moulded surround applied with gilt finials to upper corners and secured to the drop-trunk case with four steel pins, the case with lift-out panels to the side apertures over concave throat moulding and break-arch door decorated in polychrome and gilt with oriental figures within a garden trellis landscape, line borders and raised edge mouldings, the surround with diamond trellis infill to upper quadrants over chevron and leafy trail banded borders, the sides with oversize floral sprays and the base of stepped ogee profile decorated with further conforming foliate decorated panels; together with copies of Gatto, Martin THE TAVERN CLOCK Tavernicus Publishing Bath 2010, dj; Gatto, Martin THE TAVERNICUS TAVERN CLOCK ARCHIVE, Together with Random Jottings Bath 2017, softbound; Gatto, Martin THE TAVERNICUS TAVERN CLOCK ARCHIVE, EXTENDED EDITION Bath 2021, and Rose, Ronald E. English DIAL CLOCKS Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge 1994, dj, (5).
155cm (61ins) high, 75cm (29.5ins) wide, 20cm (8ins) deep.
Provenance:
From the private collection of a professional sportsman and commentator.
The life and work of Philip Lloyd is discussed by Brian Loomes in his article PHILIP LLOYD of Llawhaden and Bristol published in the July 2022 issue of 'CLOCKS' magazine. Loomes notes the Lloyd was a Quaker born in Llawhaden in around 1726 where he set-up business as a clockmaker. He is thought to have married Elizabeth Beverstock at St. Martin's in the Fields, London, 1758, and it is likely that he was already working in Bristol by this time. He was a fine maker producing longcase clocks in the high 'Bristol' style often incorporating lunar and tidal indications and at least one more tavern clock by him is known. He was recorded as a 'Watchmaker of Clifton Parish' on his death in 1783. His widow, Sarah, died at the age of 65 in 1789 and was buried at Love Street, Bristol.
The present timepiece is recorded in Gatto, Martin THE TAVERNICUS TAVERN CLOCK ARCHIVE, EXTENDED EDITION page 178.
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