WILLIAM WRIGHT, LONDON
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A GEORGE I WALNUT LONGCASE CLOCK
William Wright, London
The arched hood with three brass ball finials and a pierced foliate scroll panel above an arched glazed door with similar pierced panels flanked by columnar uprights, the trunk with an arched molded door on a rectangular plinth, the dial with silvered chapter ring signed William Wright Londini Fecit, pierced blued steel hands, matted center with decorated calendar aperture and subsidiary seconds, winged cherub-and-foliate spandrels, the foliate engraved arch with penny moon phase and silvered chapter ring giving the moon's age and tidal indicator, latches to the dial feet and five ringed pillars of the movement with anchor escapement and internal rack strike on a bell, case reveneered, hood and plinth rebuilt
102in. (259cm.) high
William Wright, London
The arched hood with three brass ball finials and a pierced foliate scroll panel above an arched glazed door with similar pierced panels flanked by columnar uprights, the trunk with an arched molded door on a rectangular plinth, the dial with silvered chapter ring signed William Wright Londini Fecit, pierced blued steel hands, matted center with decorated calendar aperture and subsidiary seconds, winged cherub-and-foliate spandrels, the foliate engraved arch with penny moon phase and silvered chapter ring giving the moon's age and tidal indicator, latches to the dial feet and five ringed pillars of the movement with anchor escapement and internal rack strike on a bell, case reveneered, hood and plinth rebuilt
102in. (259cm.) high