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Circa 1713
Sold
8 ft. 2 inches high
A fine walnut 8-day longcase clock. The fine quality case stands on a single footed plinth with a cross-banded panel in the base, the trunk door with typical brass hinges and beautifully figured veneers, numbered clearly 542 on the leading edge. The hood is flanked by brass-capped three quarter columns and has pierced walnut frets to the restored caddy top. DIAL The 11 inch square gilt-brass dial is signed Tho: Tompion London on a silvered oval plaque in the matted centre with seconds ring and calendar aperture with pinhole adjustment, shuttered winding holes. The silvered chapter ring has Roman & Arabic chapters with lozenge half and half-quarter markers, blued steel hour, minute and seconds hands. The fine quality Indian-mask-and-scroll spandrels are double-screwed to the dial plate. MOVEMENT The fine quality movement has latches to the dial feet and also to the six ring-turned pillars, two wheel trains with anchor escapement for the going train, the pendulum with Tompion�s calibrated rating nut, the strike train striking the hours on a bell above the plates.