Alexander Stewart, Dublin, an Inlaid mahogany longcase clock...

Hammer

£2,000

Alexander Stewart, Dublin, an Inlaid mahogany longcase clock, the eight-day duration movement striking the hours on a bell with the thirteen-inch square brass dial having a raised chapter ring engraved with black Roman numerals and makers name Alexr. Stewart, Dublin, with subsidiary seconds dial and date aperture to the dial centre, cast-brass cherub-head spandrels to the four corners and decorative blued steel hands, the mahogany case having satinwood cross-banding to the trunk and base, with Sheraton-style inlaid decoration to the trunk, base and corners, surmounted by an architectural pediment and all standing on bracket feet, height 252cm. Alexander Stewart is recorded as working in Dublin from circa 1766 until at least 1774.