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PROPERTY FROM A CALIFORNIA COLLECTION (LOT 448)
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY LONGCASE CLOCK
BY JOHN DALTON, LONDON, LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Details
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY LONGCASE CLOCK
BY JOHN DALTON, LONDON, LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
With brass finials to the pagoda top with later foliate pierced-wood sound frets on engaged stop-fluted columns, similar quarter columns flanking a paneled door above a molded panel plinth, with early 20th century inscribed paper label for the Knight family, Gravesend, Kent, the double foot probably replaced; the brass dial with silvered chapter ring, matted center with seconds ring and date aperture, strike/silent ring to arch; the five pillar movement with anchor escapement and rack strike on bell; pendulum, three weights, winder
98 in. (249 cm.) high
BY JOHN DALTON, LONDON, LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
With brass finials to the pagoda top with later foliate pierced-wood sound frets on engaged stop-fluted columns, similar quarter columns flanking a paneled door above a molded panel plinth, with early 20th century inscribed paper label for the Knight family, Gravesend, Kent, the double foot probably replaced; the brass dial with silvered chapter ring, matted center with seconds ring and date aperture, strike/silent ring to arch; the five pillar movement with anchor escapement and rack strike on bell; pendulum, three weights, winder
98 in. (249 cm.) high
Provenance
The Knight Family, Gravesend, Kent, early 20th century.
The Vitale Collection of Highly Important European Clocks; Christie's, New York, 30 October 1996, lot 114.
The Vitale Collection of Highly Important European Clocks; Christie's, New York, 30 October 1996, lot 114.
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