A mid 19th Century mahogany-cased 8-day painted dial longcase clock with moon phaseJ. M....

A mid 19^th Century mahogany-cased 8-day painted dial longcase clock with moon phase
J. M. Zahringer, Birmingham
Having a 14-inch broken-arched dial with subsidiary seconds and date dials framing inscribed maker’s name, the spandrels painted with female figures as the Four Seasons, beneath hemispheres painted with doves, a lunar wheel with ship and ruin, and a lunar calendar scale, the movement rack-striking on a bell, the case with swan-neck pediment over spirally-reeded hood and trunk columns, the latter flanking a crossbanded pointed short door, on a canted base, sold with two weights plus pendulum, 91”, (231cm) high