A GEORGE III OAK LONGCASE CLOCK

A GEORGE III OAK LONGCASE CLOCK

BY M. WORCESTER OF WEDNESBURY

the brass eight day movement with four turned pillars and an anchor escapement striking on a bell, the painted arched fourteen inch dial with Roman numerals and decorated with a hunting scene, cottages and pheasants, with date aperture and subsidiary seconds dial, signed 'M Worcester, Wednesbury', the case with mahogany panels and banding, the hood with a broken swan neck pediment and turned columns, the shaped trunk door inlaid with a marquetry conch shell and flanked by quarter split pilasters

229cm high

Provenance

Caverswall Castle, Staffordshire.