Lot 122
GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND MARQUETRY CHIMING MOONPHASE LONGCASE CLOCK
LATE 18TH CENTURY
Auction: Five Centuries Day One | Wed 11th November | Lots 1 to 322
Description
the brass breakarch dial with silvered chapter ring and centre, Roman numerals and Arabic five minute markers, the foliate scroll engraved centre with a subsidiary second and date dial, pierced mask spandrels, the arch with painted moonphase and silvered scale, the sides of the dial with two levers, ‘Strike/Silent’ to the left, ‘Silent/Chime’ to the right, the case with tall broken swan necked pediment, with penwork roundels of a cockerel and an owl, symbolising the day and the night, above a wide marquetry frieze, the dial flanked by three quarter brass Corinthian fluted columns, the trunk with a satinwood marquetry frieze over a moulded arched door flanked by brass mounted quarter fluted columns, on a satinwood crossbanded square plinth base with canted angles and ogee bracket feet, the triple train weight driven movement striking on a bell and chiming on a nest of eight bells
Dimensions
235cm high, 56cm wide, 29cm deep