A GEORGE II WALNUT AND BURR WALNUT LONGCASE CLOCK

A GEORGE II WALNUT AND BURR WALNUT LONGCASE CLOCK

BY RICHARD PECKOVER, LONDON, MID-18TH CENTURY

the brass eight day four pillar movement with an anchor escapement and striking on a bell, with a 12in brass dial with black Roman hours and Arabic minutes on a matted centre with a subsidiary seconds dial and date aperture, inside crowned mask spandrels, beneath an arch with a rondel inscribed 'Richard Peckover LONDON 505', the hood with an arched, glazed door flanked by tapering columns with brass capitals and feet, the body with an arched trunk door with crossbanding and boxwood stringing, on a plinth base, with keys, weights and pendulum

224cm high