£1,000 - £1,500
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY EIGHT-DAY LONGCASE CLOCKEDWARD GATTON, LONDON, CIRCA 1780The five pillar rack and bell striking movement with anchor escapement regulated by seconds pendulum, the 12 inch brass break-arch dial with subsidiary seconds dial and calendar aperture and signed Edw'd Gatton London to the silvered centre, within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with Arabic five minutes beyond the outer minute track, with fine scroll pierced steel hands and rococo scroll cast and pierced spandrels to angles, beneath arch centred with a subsidiary STRIKE/SILENT selection dial flanked by conforming mounts, in a figured mahogany case with concave-sided 'pagoda' superstructure fronted with a shaped diamond-lattice pierced fret over break-arch cavetto cornice and brass stop-fluted columns flanking the hinged glazed dial aperture, the sides with rectangular windows and quarter columns set against bargeboards at the rear, the trunk break-arch door fronted with flame figured veneers within complex mouldings flanked by brass stop-fluted quarter columns, the plinth base with concave top moulding over applied shaped panel to fascia, on moulded double skirt incorporating shaped apron to lower margin.240cm (94.5ins) high excluding finials, 53cm (21ins) wide, 27cm (10.5ins) deep.Edward Gatton is recorded in Baillie, G.H. Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World as working before 1762.
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