A WILLIAM AND MARY WALNUT LONGCASE CLOCK
BY THOMAS TOMPION, LONDON, AND NUMBERED 104, CIRCA 1690-95, THE MOVEMENT AND CASE ASSOCIATED, REVENEERING AND RESTORATIONS TO CASE
The 10in. square brass dial with foliate border engraving, signed THO: TOMPION LONDONI FECIT at the base beneath the silvered chapter ring with Roman and Arabic chapters, sword hilt half hour divisions and pierced blued steel hands, the finely matted center with additional silvered oval plaque signed Tho Tompion/London, calendar aperture below and seconds ring beneath XII, winged cherub spandrels, latches to the six ringed pillars of the month-going movement with reversed trains, bolt-and-shutter maintaining power, anchor escapement, high position outside countwheel strike on a bell above the plates, the backplate punch numbered 104 at the base, the case with brass-capped columns to the hood with flat top and frieze fret, rectangular trunk door with gilt-brass escutcheon, the plinth on a skirted base, the back of dial inscribed, presumably by a restorer, with the dates March 22, 1819, July 14, 1829, May 31, 1847 and April 27, 1819(?)
79½in. (202cm.) high, 17in. (43cm.) wide, 9½in. (23cm.) deep