JOHN DALTON, LONDON, FOURTH QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY LONGCASE CLOCK
john dalton, london, fourth quarter 18th century
The break-arch dial with silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with elaborately pierced blued steel hands, the matted center with subsidiary seconds ring and calendar aperture, signed on an applied silvered plaque John Dalton, London, foliate spandrels, strike/silent ring in the arch, the five pillar movement rack striking on a bell and with anchor escapement, the case with brass ball-and-spire finials to the pagoda top with later foliate pierced-wood sound frets supported on detached brass reeded and capped columns, similar ¼-columns flanking the trunk door, the double-footed plinth applied with a raised hollow-cornered panel to the front
98in. (249cm.) high
john dalton, london, fourth quarter 18th century
The break-arch dial with silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with elaborately pierced blued steel hands, the matted center with subsidiary seconds ring and calendar aperture, signed on an applied silvered plaque John Dalton, London, foliate spandrels, strike/silent ring in the arch, the five pillar movement rack striking on a bell and with anchor escapement, the case with brass ball-and-spire finials to the pagoda top with later foliate pierced-wood sound frets supported on detached brass reeded and capped columns, similar ¼-columns flanking the trunk door, the double-footed plinth applied with a raised hollow-cornered panel to the front
98in. (249cm.) high