A Queen Anne walnut month-going longcase clock

JOSEPH SAER, LONDON

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A Queen Anne walnut month-going longcase clock
Joseph Saer, London
The case with caddy top and moulded cornice with later sound fret, brass-capped three quarter columns flanking the hood, concave throat moulding above the rectangular trunk door with herringbone inlay and circular brass-framed lenticle, convex moulding to the plinth with unusual out-set front panel framed with herringbone inlay and on double-skirted foot, the 12 in. sq. dial with contemporary added arch finely engraved with foliate scolls and formalised strapwork inhabited with birds and centred by a basket overflowing with fruit all within a wheatear engraved border, the main dial signed Jos:Saer, Perpool Lane, Londini, Fecit beneath the brass Roman and Arabic chapter ring with blued steel hands, the finely matted centre with subsidiary seconds ring, decorated calendar aperture and low-positioned ringed winding holes, the movement with five ringed pillars, (one latched), anchor escapement, unusual collets, outside countwheel, strike on bell
8ft. 245cm. (high)

Lot Essay

Joseph Saer was made Free of the Clockmakers' Company in 1687 and paid quarterage until 1704.
The present clock clearly dates from the turn of the 17th/18th century when the fashion for arched dials started to become popular. Whether the client knew his clock had been adapted from a square dial will remain an interesting subject for speculation.

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