A GEORGE II WALNUT MONTH GOING LONGCASE CLOCK

A GEORGE II WALNUT MONTH GOING LONGCASE CLOCK

BY CLAUDE VIET LONDON, C.1725

the brass month going movement with four turned and finned pillars and with an anchor escapement striking on a bell, the twelve inch arched dial with a silvered chapter ring with Roman and Arabic numerals and with a matted centre with a subsidiary seconds dial and date aperture, the winding holes with moulded edges, with pierced and scroll blued steel hands, with gilt mask spandrels, the arch with cornucopia spandrels and with a signature panel 'Claude Viet London', the burr veneered case with a moulded and fret carved hood with urn finials and with a pair of columns, the arched quarter veneered trunk door above a panelled plinth base

253.5cm high

Provenance

Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.

Catalogue Note

Claude Viet was a Huguenot clockmaker originally from Orléans who moved to London. In 1698 Viet was free from the Watchmaker's Company. He was active between the end of the 17th to the early part of the 18th century and was watchmaker to Queen Anne. He died in 1734.