A Queen Anne month-going walnut longcase clock, the well figured case with convex moulding to skirted plinth, rectangular trunk door with outset hinges and unusual foliate engraved escutcheon, foliate carved angle trusses to concave throat moulding, the flat top hood with brass capped ¾-columns, the 12in. dial signed Alex Hewitt, London below the engraved central rosette in the matted centre with subsidiary seconds ring and calendar aperture, brass chapter ring, well pierced and chiseled blued steel hands, crown-and-putti spandrels interrupting the foliate engraved border, latches to the dial feet and to the six ringed pillar movement of heavy construction, anchor escapement and unusual inside rack strike

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A Queen Anne month-going walnut longcase clock, the well figured case with convex moulding to skirted plinth, rectangular trunk door with outset hinges and unusual foliate engraved escutcheon, foliate carved angle trusses to concave throat moulding, the flat top hood with brass capped ¾-columns, the 12in. dial signed Alex Hewitt, London below the engraved central rosette in the matted centre with subsidiary seconds ring and calendar aperture, brass chapter ring, well pierced and chiseled blued steel hands, crown-and-putti spandrels interrupting the foliate engraved border, latches to the dial feet and to the six ringed pillar movement of heavy construction, anchor escapement and unusual inside rack strike
7ft.5in. (226cm.)

拍品專文

Alexander Hewitt, b. 1671, apprenticed to Benjamin Bell until 1692.