A GEORGE III MAHOGANY LONGCASE CLOCK

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY LONGCASE CLOCK

BY THOMAS FORDHAM, BRAINTREE, LATE 18TH CENTURY

the brass eight day movement with four knopped pillars and anchor escapement striking on a bell, the silvered dial with black Roman hours and Arabic minutes, with subsidiary seconds dial and date aperture, inscribed 'Thos. Fordham / BRAINTREE' to the foliate engraved centre beneath an arch with a painted moonphase and engraved hemispheres, the case with a padoga hood with a reticulated brass panel above an arched door flanked by stop fluted columns, with brass grilles to the sides, the body with an arched door flanked by stop fluted quarter columns, with key, weights and pendulum

255cm high