A GEORGE I WALNUT MUSICAL STRIKING LONGCASE CLOCK

Лот 29
29.11.2023 10:30UTC +00:00
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£ 4 032
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Лот 29 | A GEORGE I WALNUT MUSICAL STRIKING LONGCASE CLOCK
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£ 4 000 – 6 000
A GEORGE I WALNUT MUSICAL STRIKING LONGCASE CLOCK

WINDMILLS & ELKINS, LONDON, CIRCA 1725

The arched glazed hood and concave cresting with sphere and vase finials, the trunk with arched moulded door above stepped plinth and skirting, the 13 inch brass dial with silvered chapter ring, inner subsidiary seconds and date aperture, eagle and vase spandrels, the arch with twelve tune selection 'This Great World/Brittans Strike Home/Dame of Honour/The Spanish Jigg/The Happy Clown/3 Generals Healths/A Rig Adoon/A Minuet by Mr. Handell/O Lonely Charmer/A Young Virgin of 15/Beautifull Phillis/Bright Aurelia', signed within the arch 'Wilkins & Elkins / London', the substantial three-train movement with T-shaped plates joined by seven pillars, with anchor escapement, hour bell mounted to the side, pin barrel activating twenty-five hammers striking on thirteen bells, pendulum and three brass cased weights

108 in. (274.3 cm.) high; 24 in. (61 cm.) wide; 11 ¾ in. (30 cm.) deep





Provenance

Probably Samuel, 1st Baron Sandys (1695-1770), and by descent.



Literature

Ombersley Court Inventory, c. 1770-1775, Ombersley MS, where listed on 'The Great Staircase', as 'a Large Light Ray Clock in a wallnut tree case'.

A. Oswald, 'Ombersley Court, Worcestershire - I', Country Life, 2 January 1953, p. 37.
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