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Dial clock by John Leroux (fl.1781-1808), London, c.1800
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Dial clock XF55, by John Leroux (fl.1781-1808), London, c. 1800, ebonised wood, brass, steel and glass.©Sir John Soane's Museum, London.
Dial clock by John Leroux (fl.1781-1808), London, c.1800
Ebonised wood, brass, steel and glass
Diameter: 52cm
Museum number: XF55
On display: Front Kitchen
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Curatorial note
With moulded bezel, the back box with angled underside, 16¼ inch (41.5 cm) diameter painted wood dial with Roman and Arabic chapters, signed LEROUX / LONDON, painted steel heart-shaped hands, the eight day movement with over-size rectangular plates joined by five pillars, single line and fusee with anchor escapement, with T-bar suspension for steel rod pendulum with brass bob.
John Leroux was working in Charing Cross between 1781 and 1808 and it therefore seems likely that Soane purchased this clock some time during that period and later installed it in the front kitchen of No. 13 (completed in 1812-13). In 1835 Vulliamy repaired the clock for Soane, providing a new Escapement and pendulum and ‘repaired the case painted black and varnished’.1
1 SM Archive XVI.A.4.5. Bill dated October 24 1835.
John Leroux was working in Charing Cross between 1781 and 1808 and it therefore seems likely that Soane purchased this clock some time during that period and later installed it in the front kitchen of No. 13 (completed in 1812-13). In 1835 Vulliamy repaired the clock for Soane, providing a new Escapement and pendulum and ‘repaired the case painted black and varnished’.1
1 SM Archive XVI.A.4.5. Bill dated October 24 1835.
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