Wall clock
Benjamin Lautier (1777 - 1846)
Category
Horology
Date
1824
Materials
Glass, paint and cast iron
Place of origin
Bath
Order this imageCollection
Dyrham, Gloucestershire
NT 453241
Summary
Blue painted circular turret clock, marked on the setting dial B Lautiers Bath. Probably purchased by Colonel Blathwayt c.1850. Mechanism is by J. Moore & Sons of Clerkenwell, stamped B Lautiers, Bath 1824. 12/04/24 Two-train, turret clock movement with blue-painted cast iron frame and brass wheel work, with anchor recoil escapement and maintaining power. The striking gear train is present but with no fly or hammer-lifting assembly. Silvered setting dial signed ‘B Lautiers BATH 1824’. Benjamin Lautier is recorded in Brian Loomes’s Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World: Complete 21st Century Edition on page 466 as working between 1790 until his death in 1846 when he was succeeded by his widow Anne until 1852. The renowned company of John Moore and Sons of Clerkenwell is recorded in Britten’s “Old Clocks & Watches” as located in 38 Clerkenwell Close between 1801 and 1875.
Provenance
Indigenous collection purchased by Ministry of Works in 1956 and given to Dyrham Park in 1661
Makers and roles
Benjamin Lautier (1777 - 1846), horologist Moores , horologist