CASE: the fluted pedestal on waisted socle and square section base on a stepped bow-fronted plinth flanked by putto and with architectural attributes including a mallet, a chisel, a pulley, and a telescope, the scroll below the volumes engraved 'Fugit irreparabile tempus / Virgl.', the rear dust cover inscribed in ink 'No. 282'
DIAL: the white enamel dial with gilt Roman hours and dot minute markers, pierced stylised foliate hands and signed 'JUMP / LONDON', the reverse of the dial with painted initials 'W. T.'
MOVEMENT: the narrow fusée timepiece movement with half dead-beat escapement, plates joined by five pillars, the backplate engraved 'Jump / LONDON', brass bob pendulum on ebonised wood rod
16¹⁄₄ in. (41.2 cm.) high; 11³⁄₄ in. (30 cm.) wide; 8 in. (20.3 cm.) deep

With Goddens of Worthing, mid-1960’s until sold;
Dr. Lloyd Hawes, Virgil Collection: Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Private collection, U.K.

A. Kelly, ‘Decorative Wedgwood in Architecture and Furniture’, The Twelfth Wedgwood International Seminar, Washington, 1967, p. 76, fig. 26.
A. Kelly, 'A Clockmaker's Taste for Ceramics', Country Life, 15 June 1967, pp. 1526-1528, fig. 6.
A. Kelly, ‘Vulliamys, Wedgwoods and Georgian Clocks’, Proceedings of the Wedgwood Society, No. 7, 1968, pp. 161-2, plate 18 (a & b).
T. Clifford, 'New evidence concerning Vulliamy clocks and Duesbury porcelain', Derby Porcelain International Society Journal, II, 1991, p. 47.
R. Smith, ‘It is not in the Power of Porcelain to be Commanded’: Some Problems in the Design and Manufacture of Vulliamy’s Sculptural Clocks, British Ceramic Design 1600-2002, English Ceramic Circle, London, 2003, p. 134.
A. P. Ledger and R. Smith, Benjamin Vulliamy and the Derby Porcelain Manufactory 1784-1795, Derby, 2007, p. 112.

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The Vulliamy Model
The present clock represents the ‘Genius of Architecture contemplating the transience of Time' and would probably originally have had the block and tackle pulley system incorporated on the other recorded clocks of this case type by Vulliamy:

No. 206 - sold Christie’s, London, 15 September 2004, lot 41.
No. 240 - From the collection of the Hon. Mrs Nellie Ionides, sold Sotheby's, Buxted Park, Sussex, 24 May 1971, lot 13, to Asprey.
No. 258 - The Collection of His Majesty the King, originally bought for the Duke of Clarence, Clarence House, subsequently moved to Windsor Castle and now in the Green Room at Frogmore House, Berkshire. (RCIN 30051).
No. ‘282’ – The present clock.

The Wedgwood and Jump mystery
The walking putto figures were originally commissioned by Benjamin Vulliamy (1747-1811) from William Duesbury’s Derby porcelain manufactory (William Duesbury II, 1763-96). These were originally modelled by John Deare (1759-98) and supplied from 1783, later remodelled, as with the present clock, with the addition of a modest sash, probably to conform with changes of taste, by Charles Peart (1759-98) and appeared from 1787 (Ledger and Smith, op. cit. p. 106). The present figures are uniquely each impressed WEDGWOOD to the underside of the feet and although conforming generally to the Peart models have various differences to dimensions and proportions.
Despite Vulliamy’s concern at the quality of the Derby production there is no known record of him approaching Wedgwood as an alternative source for these models of ‘boys’, despite using Wedgwood for their jasperware plaques during this period.
The ink number ‘282’ to the rear dust cover would conform to Vulliamy’s production of the 1790’s and the primary elements of the case (column, socle and plinth) would appear to date from this period. The Jump movement, of the traditional slender Vulliamy type, quite likely dates from after the 1850’s when, following the death of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780-1854), Joseph Jump and his brother Alfred set up business as ‘successors to Vulliamy’ at 1a Old Bond Street having been bequeathed lathes and other implements. The Jump family had a long association with Vulliamy; Richard Jump (b. 1785) working for Benjamin’s son Benjamin Lewis from 1812, his sons Richard and Joseph were apprenticed to Vulliamy in 1825 and 1827 respectively. The firm acquired the Royal Warrant in 1910 and ceased trading in 1934.