P. Price, Chester, a Victorian mahogany 8 day painted dial l...

Hammer

£100

P. Price, Chester, a Victorian mahogany 8 day painted dial longcase clock, the 14" dial with subsidiary seconds and date dials, moonphase above, painted with (Welsh?) ladies in tartan to the corners, emblematic of the Four Seasons, the movement striking on a bell, the hood with swan neck pediment and turned columns, pendulum, two weights, 227cm.
See Keith Appleby, Clockmakers of Cheshire (1999), p. 124, where Paul Price Senior is listed at 124 Northgate Street in 1846, and Paul Price Junior is listed 1840 - 1893, including in 1852 at 54 Northgate Street.