Beschreibung:

A Queen Anne walnut and faux boulle six-month going longcase clock Unsigned. Circa 1710 The monumental case of excellent proportions with skirted plinth and walnut veneered sides, painted to the front in pink, gold and black on a cream ground with geometric strapwork and foliage, the trunk door painted in similar colours with a geometric Arabesque foliage and strapwork design inhabited with wonderful birds, storks, parakeets and also butterflies, the base of the door painted with a house within an oval reserve, glazed brass framed lenticle, foliate carved giltwood volute trusses to the painted concave moulding beneath the hood with similarly painted gilt-wood capped three-quarter columns, the foliate pierced gilt-wood sound frets beneath the concave moulded caddy top with similar paintwork and surmounted by three ball-and-spire finials, the 13 in. sq. brass dial with silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with sword hilt half hour markers and delicately pierced blued steel hands, the finely matted centre with subsidiary seconds ring (lacking hand), the movement with thick brass rectangular plates secured by six massive latched pillars, the wheel train with delicate anchor escapement and twin weight drive from two barrels and two large brass-cased weights 9ft. 1in. (274cm.) high