LE PLASTRIER, LONDON, CIRCA 1840

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A VICTORIAN MAPLE-VENEERED EIGHT-DAY CARRIAGE TIMEPIECE
LE PLASTRIER, LONDON, CIRCA 1840
CASE: with stepped top to ripple-moulded frieze, the sides and top with bevelled glass panels, on part bombé and moulded stepped base DIAL: the square silvered and scroll-engraved dial with blued steel hands signed 'Le Plastrier Chancery Lane' MOVEMENT: with four tapered pillars, single chain fusee and recoil anchor escapement; with winding key, case key
8½ in. (21.5 cm.) high; 6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm.) wide; 5 in. (12.8 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The Leplastrier (Le Plastrier) family of clockmakers were active in the City, East London and Kent during the first half of the nineteenth century. With its Chancery Lane address, the signature on this clock refers to one of its members who is recorded as working circa 1840 (B. Loomes, Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World, London, 2006, p. 478).

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