James Stratton
Director
Lot 100TP
An early 18th century burr yew longcase clock Thomas Bradford, London
2 December 2025, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£2,000 - £3,000
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Lewis Walduck
Cataloguer
An early 18th century burr yew longcase clock
Thomas Bradford, London
The case with flat moulded top over a pierced sound fret, the sides fitted with rectangular glazed windows and flanked by simple columns, above a concave throat moulding. The long trunk door with moulded surround and inlaid stringing enclosing an oval lenticle, above a moulded base raised on a plinth. The 12 inch brass dial with Roman and Arabic numerals divided by fancy cruciform half-hour markers, the finely matted centre with subsidiary seconds dial, large ringed winding squares, and a decorated chamfered calendar aperture, fitted with pierced blued steel hands and framed by cast brass cherub-head spandrels within a double wheatear-engraved border. Signed to the lower edge Thomas Bradford, London. The two-train movement united by five finely turned knopped and latched pillars, with anchor escapement and internal countwheel, striking the hours on a bell mounted above the backplate. Sold with a pair of weights, pendulum and winding key. 2.18m (7.16ft) high.
The case with flat moulded top over a pierced sound fret, the sides fitted with rectangular glazed windows and flanked by simple columns, above a concave throat moulding. The long trunk door with moulded surround and inlaid stringing enclosing an oval lenticle, above a moulded base raised on a plinth. The 12 inch brass dial with Roman and Arabic numerals divided by fancy cruciform half-hour markers, the finely matted centre with subsidiary seconds dial, large ringed winding squares, and a decorated chamfered calendar aperture, fitted with pierced blued steel hands and framed by cast brass cherub-head spandrels within a double wheatear-engraved border. Signed to the lower edge Thomas Bradford, London. The two-train movement united by five finely turned knopped and latched pillars, with anchor escapement and internal countwheel, striking the hours on a bell mounted above the backplate. Sold with a pair of weights, pendulum and winding key. 2.18m (7.16ft) high.