J Barwise, London. c.1810 Stock No. 3274

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J Barwise, London. c.1810

A particularly elegant Georgian wall clock, the 12" diameter flat wooden dial signed 'J.Barwise, London', the fusee movement with shaped plates and heavily knopped pillars, fronted by matching steel hands, in a mahogany case with exceptionally narrow wooden dial surround  which  carries a cast brass quarter round bezel.

Stock No. 3274

The steel hands are particularly fine, and the dial and surround are made from a a single piece of mahogany. The decoration around the  'London' is particularly florid, and it is interesting to see 'Barwise', the original instructions to the dial painter, still visible to the rear of the dial.

John Barwise was born in Cockermouth, Cumbria, in 1758 and became the third generation of a clockmaking family. In abut 1780 he moved   to St. Martin's Lane, London, and married in 1790. By 1819 the firm became Barwise and Sons, and he died c. 1842.