A GEORGE III CHINOISERIE DECORATED BLACK JAPANNED TAVERN WAL...

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£3,000 - £5,000

A GEORGE III CHINOISERIE DECORATED BLACK JAPANNED TAVERN WALL TIMEPIECESIGNED FOR COWLEY, LONDON, CIRCA 1780The four pillar weight-driven movement with five-wheel train, anchor escapement regulated by seconds pendulum and tapered plates, the circular cream painted slightly convex wooden Arabic numeral dial with Arabic five minutes beyond the outer minute track and decorative scroll-pierced brass spade hands, within a black and gilt stepped ogee moulded surround and secured to the drop-trunk case with pegs, the case with side doors behind the dial over gilt signature Cowley, OXFORD STREET flanked by gilt floral trail painted scroll-outline ears, over concave-topped rectangular door decorated in varying shades of gilt with raised oriental figure within a garden trellis landscape framed within double-line border, the surround with 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, (finish with restoration).139cm (54.75ins) high, 58.5cm (23ins) wide, 18cm (7ins) deep.A clockmaker with the surname Cowley does not appear to be recorded in the usual sources as working in London during the late 18th century.