Lot Essay
Its Palladian ornament, derives from a Doric-patterned doorway illustrated in S. Serlio's, Architettura, 1584; while the flowered frieze and quoined plinth are adapted from Abraham Swan's, Collection of Designs in Architecture, 1757.
Its architectonic features of fluted Doric pilaster on rusticated plinth with ogee-bracket feet are typical of Lancaster clock-cases of the second half of the 18th Century (see: T. Robinson, The Longcase Clock, 1981, p.314), and relates to the work of the Liverpool cabinet-maker David Wright (fl. 1747-66). (See: D. Fitz-Gerald, Georgian Furniture, London, 1969, fig.47).
Its architectonic features of fluted Doric pilaster on rusticated plinth with ogee-bracket feet are typical of Lancaster clock-cases of the second half of the 18th Century (see: T. Robinson, The Longcase Clock, 1981, p.314), and relates to the work of the Liverpool cabinet-maker David Wright (fl. 1747-66). (See: D. Fitz-Gerald, Georgian Furniture, London, 1969, fig.47).