James Christie, Perth a mahogany Georgian longcase clock, t...

Hammer

£420

James Christie, Perth a mahogany Georgian longcase clock, the eight-day duration movement striking the hours on a bell with the fourteen-inch round painted dial having black Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds and date dials and signed J. Christie, Perth, with decorative blued-steel hands, the mahogany curved-top case with inlaid stringing and having decorative floral inlay to the trunk and cast-brass capitals to the ebonised fluted pillars, the hood with a heavy cast-brass bezel and canted corners, the base standing on bracket feet, height 210cm. Biography There are two makers named James Christie known working in Perth. James Sr. at 62 High Street, and the probable maker of this clock, who married in 1818 whilst still working with his father and who died in 1859, and his son James Jr. working from circa 1840 in the High Street before moving to 52 St. John Street where he died in 1856. Reference Clockmakers & Watchmakers of Scotland Donald Whyte Pub. Mayfield Books 2005.