A MARQUETRY LONGCASE CLOCK BY JOHN GAVEL

A MARQUETRY LONGCASE CLOCK

BY JOHN GAVEL, LATE 17TH / EARLY 18TH CENTURY

the brass eight day movement with four turned and finned pillars, with an anchor escapement, striking on a bell, the twelve inch brass dial with a silvered chapter ring with Roman and Arabic numerals, signed 'Jno Gavelle London', the matted centre with a subsidiary seconds dial, with ringed winding holes and a foliate engraved calendar aperture, with gilt 'boy and crown' spandrels, the case all over inlaid with scrolling leaves, the trunk door decorated with exotic birds, blackamoors, figures with horns and a pair of Old Father Time figures holding an hourglass and a scythe, the plinth base reduced, 205.8cm high