£5,000
SAMUEL LA FOSSE, LONDON AN EARLY 18th CENTURY WALNUT MARQUETRY LONGCASE CLOCK the Dutch style case with caddy top above pierced blind fret and glazed door flanked by twisted columns on slender inlaid trunk with moulded door and lenticle on box base all inlaid with foliage and birds enclosing a 12" square brass dial with wheatear engraved border, gilt spandrels and a silvered chapter ring surrounding a matted centre with alarm dial and subsidiary seconds dial and calendar aperture, Strike/Not Strike lever above the twelve fronting an eight-day weight driven movement with five finned knopped pillars striking the hours on a bell and passing strike on the half hours 238cm high
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