A WILLIAM III WALNUT AND FLORAL MARQUETRY LONGCASE CLOCK

A WILLIAM III WALNUT AND FLORAL MARQUETRY LONGCASE CLOCK

BY RICHARD FENNELL, KENSINGTON, C.1695

the brass eight day movement with four finned and latched pillars and an inside countwheel striking on a bell, with plates measuring 6.75 by 5 inches and anchor escapement regulated by seconds pendulum, the 11 inch brass dial with a silvered chapter ring with Roman and Arabic numerals and fleur-de-lys markers, signed 'Rich. Fennell, Kensington to lower, the matted centre with a subsidiary seconds dial and date aperture, with winged cherub mask spandrels and fine scroll-pierced sculpted blued steel hands, the hood with with an ogee moulded cornice and plain frieze over floral marquetry trail, the trunk with floral bloom decorated convex throat moulding above a door centred with a circular lenticle and with three shaped marquetry panels decorated with bird inhabited floral sprays and scrolling foliage on an ebonised ground, with half-round edge mouldings, the sides veneered with twin panels within crossbanded borders

210cm high

Provenance

Private collection. Inherited by Mr. & Mrs. Curling Hunter, 9, Westbourne Terrace, London.