Lot 940
An early 18th century and later walnut and marquetry longcase clock.The 11-inch square brass...
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Lot 940
An early 18th century and later walnut and marquetry longcase clock.The 11-inch square brass...
Lot 940
Lot Description
An early 18th century and later walnut and marquetry longcase clock.
The 11-inch square brass dial having a silvered chapter ring with Roman hours and Arabic minutes plus inner quarter hour track and half hour divisions, engraved "Chr. Gould Londini fecit", framing a matted centre with silvered subsidiary seconds dial over ringed winding arbours and terrestrial calendar with scroll-engraved surround, cherub mask spandrels and scroll-engraved quarters, the later movement rack-striking on a bell, the case with moulded flat hood, pierced fretwork frieze and barley twist columns over profusely-inlaid long trunk door with lenticle, and a matching base with later plinth, 79.5", (202cm) high (sold with two weights plus pendulum)
Provenance: Private collection, listed on Insurance inventory November 1987.
Postage: Auction Default
Weight: No
Total lot weight: No
Condition Report
Dial - VGC.
Movement - broadening plates are unusual for a longcase. Packing to seatboard.
Case - some yellowing/fading to inlay. Vertical crack to base.
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