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Lot 810
A good late 18th Century mahogany-cased 8-day brass-dial longcase clock with moon phase John Catterall, Liverpool, circa 1785 sold with two weights, pendulum and winder
4 – 6 November 2008, 13:00 GMT
Chester£3,000 - £5,000
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John Catterall, Liverpool, circa 1785
Having a 14-inch broken-arched dial, the chapter ring with Roman hours and Arabic minutes framing a lattice-engraved centre with subsidiary seconds and terrestrial calendar dials, within shell-centred foliate scroll spandrels, the arch framed by engraved maker's name "JOHN + CATTERALL + LIVERPOOL", the rolling moon with engraved calendar scale framing painted starry skies, over engraved hemispheres with tropical and equatorial banding, the movement rack-striking on a bell, the fine case having a foliate-carved frill flanked by a swan-neck pediment, the later-decorated frieze over a pair of sunken fluted columns, between similar free-standing columns, the yoke-topped long trunk door between fluted quadrant columns on a canted base with bat's wing spandrels and chequer stringing, raised on truncated ogee bracket feet 235cm high (sold with two weights, pendulum and winder)
Having a 14-inch broken-arched dial, the chapter ring with Roman hours and Arabic minutes framing a lattice-engraved centre with subsidiary seconds and terrestrial calendar dials, within shell-centred foliate scroll spandrels, the arch framed by engraved maker's name "JOHN + CATTERALL + LIVERPOOL", the rolling moon with engraved calendar scale framing painted starry skies, over engraved hemispheres with tropical and equatorial banding, the movement rack-striking on a bell, the fine case having a foliate-carved frill flanked by a swan-neck pediment, the later-decorated frieze over a pair of sunken fluted columns, between similar free-standing columns, the yoke-topped long trunk door between fluted quadrant columns on a canted base with bat's wing spandrels and chequer stringing, raised on truncated ogee bracket feet 235cm high (sold with two weights, pendulum and winder)