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A German walnut musical longcase clock, late 18th century
The hood with swan neck cresting surmounted by brass ball and spire finials, with sound frets to the cornices and to the side panels, outset fluted columns with Corinthian capitals and brass stop-fluting to top and bottom, conforming pilasters to the rear slats, with further fretwork panel above an arched trunk door also flanked by double stop-fluted pilasters, above plinth with canted angles, the 13½in. wide brass dial with foliate spandrels to a silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring signed Castens/BREMEN, the matted centre with foliate scroll and geometric engraving, date aperture and recessed seconds disc (lacking hand), steel hands (restored), strike/not strike lever by 15, the arch with painted rolling moon and six tune selection above, the eight day movement with six ringed pillars, Dutch hour strike on two bells and with music on eleven bells with seventeeen hammers via a 5½in. long pinned cylinder; case with restorations to veneers and probably later door -- 107½in. (273cm.) high
The hood with swan neck cresting surmounted by brass ball and spire finials, with sound frets to the cornices and to the side panels, outset fluted columns with Corinthian capitals and brass stop-fluting to top and bottom, conforming pilasters to the rear slats, with further fretwork panel above an arched trunk door also flanked by double stop-fluted pilasters, above plinth with canted angles, the 13½in. wide brass dial with foliate spandrels to a silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring signed Castens/BREMEN, the matted centre with foliate scroll and geometric engraving, date aperture and recessed seconds disc (lacking hand), steel hands (restored), strike/not strike lever by 15, the arch with painted rolling moon and six tune selection above, the eight day movement with six ringed pillars, Dutch hour strike on two bells and with music on eleven bells with seventeeen hammers via a 5½in. long pinned cylinder; case with restorations to veneers and probably later door -- 107½in. (273cm.) high
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