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A Regency inlaid mahogany-cased 8-day painted-dial longcase clock with moon phase Anonymous, circa 1820 sold with pendulum
4 – 6 November 2008, 13:00 GMT
ChesterSold for £576 inc. premium
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Anonymous, circa 1820
Having a 14-inch broken-arched Arabic dial with subsidiary seconds and terrestrial calendar dials (faded), the spandrels painted with the Four Evangelists, the arch with lunar calendar scale over rolling moon painted with a ship flying the Red Ensign, plus a figure of Minerva wearing a helmet with plumes (panache), holding a model of a rotunda or temple, a white horse beside her, a standard or flag (blue cross on red ground) behind, over terrestrial hemispheres (rubbed), the movement, with false-plate cast WALKER & FINNEMORE, rack-striking on a bell, the case having a swan-neck pediment over inlaid frieze, the baluster-turned and reeded columns with brass Corinthian capitals, the triple-arched short trunk door, centred by a conch shell patera, between conforming columns, on a similarly-inlaid canted base with bat's wing spandrels, shaped apron and integral swept bracket feet 235cm high (sold with pendulum)
Having a 14-inch broken-arched Arabic dial with subsidiary seconds and terrestrial calendar dials (faded), the spandrels painted with the Four Evangelists, the arch with lunar calendar scale over rolling moon painted with a ship flying the Red Ensign, plus a figure of Minerva wearing a helmet with plumes (panache), holding a model of a rotunda or temple, a white horse beside her, a standard or flag (blue cross on red ground) behind, over terrestrial hemispheres (rubbed), the movement, with false-plate cast WALKER & FINNEMORE, rack-striking on a bell, the case having a swan-neck pediment over inlaid frieze, the baluster-turned and reeded columns with brass Corinthian capitals, the triple-arched short trunk door, centred by a conch shell patera, between conforming columns, on a similarly-inlaid canted base with bat's wing spandrels, shaped apron and integral swept bracket feet 235cm high (sold with pendulum)