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ADAM COSTEN, KIRKHAM
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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY LONGCASE CLOCK
Adam Costen, Kirkham
The hood with verre eglomisé arch panel and outset columns, the trunk with wavy arch door and flanked three-quarter length half columns, above plinth with canted angles and raised on bracket feet, the 13 in. wide cut-away brass dial with engraved borders, Indian mask and foliate spandrels to Roman and Arabic chapter ring with tied fleur-de-lys half hour markers, matted centre with leafy scroll engraving to inner edge and with date aperture, pierced steel hands, with painted rolling moon above and signed on an arched plaque ADAM COSTEN KIRKHAM; cheekboards built up; dial/movement third quarter 18th Century and associated to case, last quarter 18th Century; two lead weights, with crank key
91¾ in. (233 cm.) high
Adam Costen, Kirkham
The hood with verre eglomisé arch panel and outset columns, the trunk with wavy arch door and flanked three-quarter length half columns, above plinth with canted angles and raised on bracket feet, the 13 in. wide cut-away brass dial with engraved borders, Indian mask and foliate spandrels to Roman and Arabic chapter ring with tied fleur-de-lys half hour markers, matted centre with leafy scroll engraving to inner edge and with date aperture, pierced steel hands, with painted rolling moon above and signed on an arched plaque ADAM COSTEN KIRKHAM; cheekboards built up; dial/movement third quarter 18th Century and associated to case, last quarter 18th Century; two lead weights, with crank key
91¾ in. (233 cm.) high
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