£1,125
Five Centuries: Furniture, Paintings & Works of Art | 629
Auction: Five Centuries: Furniture, Paintings & Works of Art
the swan neck pediment carved with flower heads and a central urn finial, above an engraved arched brass dial signed to the arch over Roman numerals and subsidiary seconds dial and date aperture, flanked by fluted columns with brass mounts above a shaped trunk door flanked by fluted quarter columns, on a plinth base with ogee bracket feet; the eight day movement striking a bell
Note: The Edinburgh clockmaker John Murdoch was active from 1752-1775, having been apprenticed to Andrew Dickie. His son, also John, worked as his father's apprentice from 1767.