A good mid 18th century black lacquered chinoiserie longcase clock with moon phaseThomas...

A good mid 18th century black lacquered chinoiserie longcase clock with moon phase
Thomas Kefford, Royston, circa 1750. The 12-inch break-arched brass dial having a silvered chapter ring with Roman hours, Arabic minutes, lozenge and fleur-de-lis half-hour divisions, minute track and inner single-hand quarter-hour track framing a matted centre with subsidiary Arabic seconds ring over ringed winding arbours and a silvered terrestrial calendar aperture within engraved birds, basket and scrollwork, within mask-centred Baroque spandrels and engraved foliate surround, the arch with silvered and painted 'rolling moon' over scroll-engraved hemispheres, the knopped and finned four-pillar movement rack-striking on a bell, the case having a flat hood with moulded cornice over sunken columns and long break-arched trunk door with chinoiserie relief decoration  on plinth base, 82", (208cm) high.