A SWEDISH WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT LONGCASE CLOCK with circular glazed beaded hood enclosing an enamelled dial with Roman and Arabic numerals and twin winding-holes, the trellis-patterned panelled body surmounted by a neo-classical urn with gadrooned base and fruiting top above a spreading fluted plinth, the trunk with swagged ribbon-tied floral garlands, on a spreading body and rectangular plinth base with further laurel garlands, late 18th Century

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A SWEDISH WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT LONGCASE CLOCK with circular glazed beaded hood enclosing an enamelled dial with Roman and Arabic numerals and twin winding-holes, the trellis-patterned panelled body surmounted by a neo-classical urn with gadrooned base and fruiting top above a spreading fluted plinth, the trunk with swagged ribbon-tied floral garlands, on a spreading body and rectangular plinth base with further laurel garlands, late 18th Century
103in. (261.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

Related Swedish clocks designed in the Louis XVI 'Grecian' manner are illustrated from Schloss Rodga in B. G. SODERBERG 'Manor Houses and Royal Castles in Sweden', 1975, Malmo, p. 157 and in S. Wallin, MOBLER FRAN SVENSKA HERREMANSHEM 1979, p. 184

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