The Property of the late LORD LURGAN
A Charles II walnut and floral marquetry longcase clock, the case now on skirted plinth inlaid with inhabited floral marquetry, similar marquetry in panels to the rectangular door with oval lenticle, the flat-top hood with ebonised twist columns and later blind fret, the 10in.sq. dial signed Char.Gretton in Fleet Street beneath the silvered chapter ring, the matted centre with ringed winding holes, decorated calendear aperture and subsidiary seconds ring, pierced blued hands, foliate winged cherub spandrels, the six ringed pillar movement with outside countwheel strike and anchor escapement, associated and with restoration

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A Charles II walnut and floral marquetry longcase clock, the case now on skirted plinth inlaid with inhabited floral marquetry, similar marquetry in panels to the rectangular door with oval lenticle, the flat-top hood with ebonised twist columns and later blind fret, the 10in.sq. dial signed Char.Gretton in Fleet Street beneath the silvered chapter ring, the matted centre with ringed winding holes, decorated calendear aperture and subsidiary seconds ring, pierced blued hands, foliate winged cherub spandrels, the six ringed pillar movement with outside countwheel strike and anchor escapement, associated and with restoration
6ft.6in. (199cm.) high

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