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ISAAC LOWNDES, LONDON
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A William and Mary walnut and floral marquetry month-going longcase clock
Isaac Lowndes, London
The case with bird-and-floral marquetry to the plinth within an ebony and boxwood chequer border, later skirted base, similar intricate bird-and-floral marquetry to the rectangular trunk door centred by a gadrooned urn overflowing with flowers above inlaid caryatides, flanking the vestigial lenticle, floral marquetry to the throat moulding beneath the hood with similar marquetry to the door flanked by later plain columns supporting the frieze above with later fret to the front, marquetry to the caddy top flanked by later turned wood finials, the 11in. sq. dial signed Isaac Lowndes in ye Pall Mall on the silvered chapter ring with pierced blued steel hands, the matted centre with ringed winding holes, subsidiary seconds ring and decorated calendar apeture, foliate winged cherub spandrels interrupting the foliate border engraving, the five ringed pillar movement with anchor escapement and outside countwheel strike on a bell
7ft.7in. (231cm.) high
Isaac Lowndes, London
The case with bird-and-floral marquetry to the plinth within an ebony and boxwood chequer border, later skirted base, similar intricate bird-and-floral marquetry to the rectangular trunk door centred by a gadrooned urn overflowing with flowers above inlaid caryatides, flanking the vestigial lenticle, floral marquetry to the throat moulding beneath the hood with similar marquetry to the door flanked by later plain columns supporting the frieze above with later fret to the front, marquetry to the caddy top flanked by later turned wood finials, the 11in. sq. dial signed Isaac Lowndes in ye Pall Mall on the silvered chapter ring with pierced blued steel hands, the matted centre with ringed winding holes, subsidiary seconds ring and decorated calendar apeture, foliate winged cherub spandrels interrupting the foliate border engraving, the five ringed pillar movement with anchor escapement and outside countwheel strike on a bell
7ft.7in. (231cm.) high