William Green, Milton-under-Wychwood, a Quaker oak longcase ...

Hammer

£300

William Green, Milton-under-Wychwood, a Quaker oak longcase clock the iron thirty-hour birdcage movement striking the hours on a bell with the eleven-inch square brass dial having a raised chapter ring engraved with black Roman numerals and maker's name Wm. Green, Milton, with engraved leaf, or frond, decoration to the centre unique to Green, cast-brass floral spandrels to the four corners and blued-steel hands, the flat-to oak case with shaped top to the trunk door and turned three-quarter columns to the hood, height 214cms. William Green of Milton-under-Wychwood born 1722, died circa 1802, is a well-known maker recorded as working in North Oxfordshire having been apprenticed to the prominent Gilkes family of Sibford. As a prominent Quaker, Green hosted monthly preparative meetings for members in his home town and was known to be a trustee in 1773 having arrived from Banbury Monthly Meeting in 1752. Reference Tim Marshall The Quaker Clockmakers of North Oxfordshire, pub. Mayfield Books 2013, with a biography of Green pages 141-153 along with numerous illustrations of examples of his work including his unique leaf, or frond, pattern engraved to the dial centre as noted on this example.