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Lot 806

A good George III oak and mahogany-cased 8-day brass-dial longcase clock with moon phase
Jonathan Stanyer, Nantwich, (fl. c. 1762-91) sold with two weights, pendulum, key and winder

The Chester Sale

4 – 6 November 2008, 13:00 GMT

Chester

Sold for £2,160 inc. premium

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A good George III oak and mahogany-cased 8-day brass-dial longcase clock with moon phase

Jonathan Stanyer, Nantwich, (fl. c. 1762-91)
Having a 13-inch broken-arched dial, the silvered chapter ring with Roman hours, Arabic minutes and engraved foliate half-hour divisions, framing a silvered centre with star-engraved subsidiary seconds dial, foliate engraving, and a cartouche inscribed "Jno. Stanyer/NANTWICH", inset with a terrestrial calendar square, all within mask-centred foliate scroll spandrels, the arch with silvered lunar calendar scale framing rolling moon painted with sailing and boating scenes, over foliate-engraved hemispheres, the movement rack-striking on a bell, the good case having a brass ball-and-eagle finial between similar spire-topped finials on a swan-necked pediment and blind fretwork frieze over turned fluted columns flanking a crossbanded hood door, conforming yoke-topped long trunk door between fluted quadrant columns, and matching canted base on associated ogee bracket feet 222cm high (sold with two weights, pendulum, key and winder)

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