An early 19th century moonphase longcase clock, the eight-d...

Estimate

£200 - £300

An early 19th century moonphase longcase clock, the eight-day duration movement striking the hours on a bell with the thirteen-inch painted break-arch dial having black Roman hour numerals, subsidiary seconds dial and date aperture, painted to the four corners with human figures depicting the four seasons with the dial centre depicting a further scene, the arch having a moonphase disc painted with both a seascape and landscape, indistinctly signed either side of VI o'clock by the maker probably F. Busch, Birmingham, with decorative brass hands, the mahogany case having canted corners to the trunk and base, a shaped door and with the hood having turned pillars and a swan-neck pediment, height 236cm.