Nathaniel Voyce, Mitchell Deane, a walnut longcase clock the...

Hammer

£380

Nathaniel Voyce, Mitchell Deane, a walnut longcase clock the eight-day duration movement striking the hours on a bell and with brass-bound weights, the twelve-inch square brass dial having ringed winding holes to the dial centre, a subsidiary seconds dial and date aperture, with the raised chapter ring engraved with black Roman numerals, half-hour fleur-de-lys markings and signed Nathaniel Voyce, Mitchell Deane, female-head cast-brass corner spandrels and blued-steel hands (damaged), the flat-top walnut case with a bulls-eye glass to the trunk door, with the hood having a blind fret to the top and three-quarter turned columns, height 213cm. Nathaniel Voyce, born 1705, is a well-recorded maker from a large family of clockmakers who worked in Mitcheldeane, Gloucestershire until his death in 1770. His father George, who died in 1722, was the first of the family recorded. Reference: Graham Dowler Gloucestershire Clock & Watchmakers Pub. Phillimore 1984. A family tree of the Voyce family is shown page 103.