Rare British Fusee Timepiece

A very attractive single fusee carriage timepiece in an engraved, original gilt bronze case, the top, front, and sides inset with malachite gemstone panels with particularly nice banded patterns on display, framed by gilded plates with foliate engraving. The case is surmounted by a decorative chased carrying handle, and to the rear a jousting knight on horseback engraved into the back door. The beautifully engraved and silvered dial is framed by a gilt engraved ''mask'' with Roman numerals, foliate centre, and blued steel hands. The single chain fusee movement and maintaining power will run for a week on a single wind. Its very likely from the workshops of the fashionable, Somerset born clockmaker Thomas Cole. The rear of the dial is signed Cottebrune of Dean Street, Soho. In the book about Thomas Cole we have found similar examples to this one but without the Malachite panels. The engraving and multilayered construction is almost identical to another Cole clock we have in stock. The

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addition of the Malachite on this clock really does make it quite unique. Charles Cottebrune of 29 Dean St was most likely of French origin and worked alongside other great clockmakers of the period.

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Date of manufacture : 1850