Y A Fine Victorian rosewood five-glass library mantel clock James Hux, London, circa 1860 The five pillar twin chain fusee movement with anchor escapement regulated by lenticular bob pendulum and striking the hours on a coiled gong mounted along with the pendulum holdfast bracket on the backplate signed James Hux, 20 Down Street, Piccadilly to centre, the 4.25 by 4.75 inch fine foliate scroll engraved gilt brass dial further signed JAMES HUX, 20 DOWN St. PICCADILLY in a banner to the upper margin of the centre adjacent to the Roman numeral chapter ring and with blued steel moon hands, the case with large hinged foliate cast carrying handle and generous bevelled top glass to the tablet upstand over stylised leaf decorated cavetto cornice, the front with silvered canted insert to the interior of the glazed dial aperture, the sides with bevelled glasses and the rear with rectangular brass grille inset door, the base with generous ogee outline waist over moulded skirt with brass squat bun feet, 28cm (11ins) high excluding handle. Provenance: The property of a private collector; purchased at Bonhams, London sale of Fine Clocks 11th December 2007 (lot 91) for £8,400. James Hux is recorded in Loomes, Brian Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World, Volume 2 as working in London 1851-63. It would appear that Hux was mainly a watchmaker with an example incorporating duplex escapement signed Jas. Hux, 20 Down Street, Piccadilly, Chronometer Maker to the Admiralty to the backplate being described in a letter to the editor of ANTIQUARIAN HOROLOGY, Vol X, No 2 (Spring 1977) on page 229. His brother Rodwell Hux (1823-1869) was also noted by Thomas Mercer as a chronometer-maker.