A WILLIAM AND MARY PROVINCIAL WALNUT, EBONISED AND FLORAL MARQUETRY STRIKING EIGHT DAY LONGCASE CLOCK
CIRCA 1695
CASE: formerly rising flat top hood with spiral columns, later frieze fret, trunk door with reserves of bird and flower marquetry around glazed lenticle, plinth with hunting scene, later skirting DIAL: 10 in. square brass dial with winged cherub spandrels to later skeletonised chapter ring with later signature 'Timothy Peniston', matted centre with date square and later skeletonised seconds ring, blued steel later hands MOVEMENT: four ringed pillars with anchor escapement and internal countwheel strike on bell; two weights, pendulum, case key
76½ in. (194.5 cm.) high; 15 in. (38 cm.) wide; 8½ in. (21.5 cm.) deep
A WILLIAM AND MARY PROVINCIAL WALNUT, EBONISED AND FLORAL MARQUETRY STRIKING EIGHT DAY LONGCASE CLOCK
CIRCA 1695
CASE: formerly rising flat top hood with spiral columns, later frieze fret, trunk door with reserves of bird and flower marquetry around glazed lenticle, plinth with hunting scene, later skirting DIAL: 10 in. square brass dial with winged cherub spandrels to later skeletonised chapter ring with later signature 'Timothy Peniston', matted centre with date square and later skeletonised seconds ring, blued steel later hands MOVEMENT: four ringed pillars with anchor escapement and internal countwheel strike on bell; two weights, pendulum, case key
76½ in. (194.5 cm.) high; 15 in. (38 cm.) wide; 8½ in. (21.5 cm.) deep