Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - 6th July 2021
Lot 349
A GEORGE III OAK LONGCASE CLOCK
Estimate £300 - £500
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Description
A GEORGE III OAK LONGCASE CLOCK
BY M. WORCESTER OF WEDNESBURY
the brass eight day movement with four turned pillars and an anchor escapement striking on a bell, the painted arched fourteen inch dial with Roman numerals and decorated with a hunting scene, cottages and pheasants, with date aperture and subsidiary seconds dial, signed 'M Worcester, Wednesbury', the case with mahogany panels and banding, the hood with a broken swan neck pediment and turned columns, the shaped trunk door inlaid with a marquetry conch shell and flanked by quarter split pilasters
229cm high
Provenance
Caverswall Castle, Staffordshire.