£756
Auction: Five Centuries
the hood with a swan neck pediment and arched painted dial depicting a sailing ship with roses and thistles in the spandrels, with a Roman numeral chapter and subsidiary seconds and calendar dials, flanked by reeded Corinthian columns above an arched trunk door flanked by quarter columns, on a plinth base with bracket feet, the eight-day movement striking a bell
Note: There are two clockmakers with the surname Paterson working in Leith in the first quarter of the 19th century. Alexander Paterson joined by Canongate Hammermen in 1814 and John Paterson, who advertised in North Leith from 1807.