Lot 941
A late 17th century and later walnut longcase clock.'Thomas Wintworth of Sarum' (Salisbury)The...
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Lot 941
A late 17th century and later walnut longcase clock.'Thomas Wintworth of Sarum' (Salisbury)The...
Lot 941
Lot Description
A late 17th century and later walnut longcase clock.
'Thomas Wintworth of Sarum' (Salisbury)
The 9.75-inch square brass dial having a later silvered chapter ring with Roman hours and Arabic minutes plus inner quarter hour track and half hour divisions framing a profusely-engraved silvered centre with banner "Thomas Wintworth of Sarum", beneath shuttered winding arbours, within putto spandrels, the knopped and finned five-pillar movement countwheel-striking on a bell, the later case with vertically-removable moulded flat hood, pierced fretwork frieze and barley twist columns over figured long trunk door with lenticle, and a matching base with plinth, 80", (203cm) high (sold with two weights, pendulum, key and winder)
Provenance: Private collection, listed on Insurance inventory February 1984.
Postage: Auction Default
Weight: No
Total lot weight: No
Condition Report
Dial - silvering is rather whitish and matt - dial is done in old style but not period.
Movement - all appears sound - finned pillars.
Case - relatively modern and in good condition.
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