£400 - £600
A SCOTTISH REGENCY MAHOGANY EIGHT-DAY LONGCASE CLOCKADAM CHISHOLM, DUMFRIES, CIRCA 1810The five pillar rack and bell striking movement with anchor escapement regulated by seconds pendulum, the 11.75 inch circular brass dial with subsidiary seconds dial and calendar aperture to the matted centre within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with diamond lozenge half hour markers, Arabic five minutes beyond the outer minute track and signed A'dm Chisholm, Dumfries to lower margin, with scroll pierced steel hands, the break-arch case with cavetto moulded cornice over front fitted with a hinged convex glazed cast brass bezel, flanked by canted angles and with scroll pierced rectangular sound frets to sides, the trunk with shallow arch-top caddy moulded flame figured door, on plinth base with cavetto top moulding over applied mouldings forming a panel to front and moulded skirt.197cm (77.5ins) high, 49cm (19.25ins) wide, 25.5cm (10ins) deep.Adam Chisholm is recorded in Baillie, G.H. Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World as working in Dumfries, Scotland, 1780-1821.
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