Lot 931
A rare late 17th century and later 8-day longcase clock.The 9.75-inch square brass dial with...
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Lot 931
A rare late 17th century and later 8-day longcase clock.The 9.75-inch square brass dial with...
Lot 931
Lot Description
A rare late 17th century and later 8-day longcase clock.
The 9.75-inch square brass dial with silvered chapter ring having Roman hours and Arabic minutes, inner quarter hour track and fleur de lis half hour divisions framing a matted centre with subsidiary seconds ring over shuttered winding arbors and a calendar aperture, engraved "Edward Norris Londini Fecit" beneath VI, within cherub mask spandrels, the knopped and finned five-pillar movement countwheel-striking on a bell, the later case with moulded flat hood over fretwork frieze and barley twist columns on cushion-moulded long trunk door with lenticle, the boxwood-strung base on bun feet, 76", (193cm) high (sold with two weights, pendulum and winder).
Provenance: listed on Insurance inventory, November 1987.
Postage: Auction Default
Weight: No
Total lot weight: No
Condition Report
Dial - good condition. Engraving signature appears consistent but is not guaranteed, sold as catalogued.
Movement - appears sound but is seated on two packing blocks over the seatboard.
Case - entirely later in date (carcase and veneering). Fretwork frieze to hood is later. Small veneer loss to side of trunk.
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