Donnington Priory Salerooms

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A William and Mary walnut and marquetry eight-day
longcase clock
John Clowes, London, circa 1690
The five finned-pillar outside countwheel bell striking
movement with tall plates and 11 inch square gilt brass
dial with foliate engraved calendar aperture, ringed
winding holes and subsidiary seconds dial to the matted
centre within an applied silvered Roman numeral chapter
ring with Arabic five minutes and stylised sword hilt half
hour markers, the angles with cherub head and foliate
scroll cast spandrels, and boldly signed Jo’n. Clows,
Russell Street, Covent Garden to lower edge, in a case
with moulded cornice and foliate fretwork frieze above
ebonised spiral twist pilasters to hood and convex throat,
the trunk with rectangular door centred with a circular
lenticle and inlaid with three bird inhabited floral decorated
marquetry panels on an ebonised ground, on a
rectangular plinth base with conforming decoration and
ebonised bun feet, (case with restoration), 198cm high
John Clowes is recorded in Loomes, Brian,
The Early CLOCKMAKERS of Great Britain as working in
London 1673-1713.
£6,000-8,000
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