A GEORGE III MAHOGANY LONGCASE CLOCK

SIGNED ISAAC ROBERTS, LONDON, CIRCA 1770

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY LONGCASE CLOCK
Signed Isaac Roberts, London, circa 1770
The silvered dial centering a seconds dial and blued steel hands and maker's signature on the arch, within a shaped serpentine hood with glazed door, the bombé case on rectangular plinth, the single train movement with ancho escapement and bolt and shutter maintaining power
80in. (203cm.) high, 16½in. (42cm.) wide, 8in. (20cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The unusual swelled case can also be found on a clock with works signed by [John] Cragg, Southampton from the collection at Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire as illustrated in P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, eds., The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1924, vol.II, p.123, fig.62. Another of this form by Cragg is illustrated in T. Robinson, The Longcase Clock, Woodbridge, 1981, p.404, fig.11/32. This clock predates the Cragg clocks which were undoubtedly influenced by a pattern for a clockcase in Thomas Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793, pl.29.

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