COllECTORS' iTEMS, wORkS Of ART & ClOCkS

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Samuel Pearson, Halifax, a mahogany
moon-phase longcase clock the eight-day
duration movement striking the hours on a
bell, the thirteen-inch break-arch dial with a
well painted scene to the centre depicting a
man with his dog looking over an estuary with
a masted ship sailing by, with black Roman
numerals, a subsidiary seconds dial to the
centre, with the date ring to the inner aspect
having a brass sweep hand, with female fourseason
decoration to the four corners and
moonphase disc to the arch, signed either side
of VI o’clock ‘Pearson, Halifax’, the mahogany
case with canted corners and cross-banding
to the base, Gothic moulding to the top of
the trunk door, inlay and decorative stringing
to the case edges, the break-arch hood with
a swan-neck pediment having carved rose
patrae and brass Corinthian capitals to the
fluted pillars, height 252cm.
£1000 - 1200
* Samuel Pearson is recorded as working in
Petticoat Lane, Halifax from circa 1790 before
moving to Cornmarket where he is known to
have been working in 1822.
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