A George II walnut, boxwood and ebony-line inlaid longcase clock, the movement striking on a single bell, brass dial with silvered chapter ring enclosing a subsidiary seconds dial and date aperture, flanked by pierced acanthus-cast spandrels to the angles with central female portrait mask surmounted by a shell, the arch with circular silvered plaque inscribed Chas. Bosley, Succesr. to Mr. Kipling, London, enclosed by a glazed door flanked by reeded columns, the caddy-top pediment surmounted by three ball and spike finials, the case fitted with an arched trunk door, the box base on later plinth, the hood bearing a paper label to reverse inscribed Pophams, Plymouth, the case interior bearing a paper label inscribed Upjohn & Son, Watch and Clock Makers, opposite the Castle, Brentford, restorations, 101ins (256.5cms) high

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A George II walnut, boxwood and ebony-line inlaid longcase clock, the movement striking on a single bell, brass dial with silvered chapter ring enclosing a subsidiary seconds dial and date aperture, flanked by pierced acanthus-cast spandrels to the angles with central female portrait mask surmounted by a shell, the arch with circular silvered plaque inscribed Chas. Bosley, Succesr. to Mr. Kipling, London, enclosed by a glazed door flanked by reeded columns, the caddy-top pediment surmounted by three ball and spike finials, the case fitted with an arched trunk door, the box base on later plinth, the hood bearing a paper label to reverse inscribed Pophams, Plymouth, the case interior bearing a paper label inscribed Upjohn & Son, Watch and Clock Makers, opposite the Castle, Brentford, restorations, 101ins (256.5cms) high

Charles Bosley is recorded as an apprentice in 1725 and joined the Clockmakers Company in 1749.

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