A QUEEN ANNE EIGHT-DAY LONGCASE CLOCK MOVEMENT AND DIALTHOMA...

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A QUEEN ANNE EIGHT-DAY LONGCASE CLOCK MOVEMENT AND DIALTHOMAS CARTWRIGHT, LONDON, CIRCA 1710, IN A LATER MAHOGANY CASEThe five finned pillar inside rack and bell striking movement with anchor escapement regulated by seconds pendulum, the 12 inch square brass dial with subsidiary seconds dial, ringed winding holes and foliate scroll border engraved calendar aperture to the matted centre, within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with stylised sword-hilt half hour markers, Arabic five minutes beyond the outer minute track and signed Tho Cartwright, Royal Exchange, Londini fecit to lower margin, with pierced steel hands and applied twin cherub and crown cast spandrels to angles within an wheatear engraved outer margin, now in a later 18th century mahogany case with cavetto cornice over rectangular glazed dial aperture flanked by free-standing columns with brass caps and bases, the sides with arch-glazed apertures and bargeboards to the rear edges, over concave throat moulding and caddy moulded break-arch door to trunk, on plinth base with stepped ogee top mouldings and moulded skirt incorporating bracket feet.204cm (80.25ins) high, 50cm (19.75ins) wide, 24cm (9.5ins) deep.Thomas Cartwright is recorded in Loomes, Brian The Early CLOCKMAKERS of Great Britain as being born circa 1679. He was apprenticed to Christopher Gould in 1693 gaining his Freedom of the Clockmakers' Company in 1700; he reputedly died in 1741.The movement of the current lot is noteworthy in that it employs an internal rack for the striking mechanism - a feature normally reserved for high quality or month movements by the better makers. This feature perhaps demonstrates the influence of Cartwright's master, Christopher Gould, in his work.