Lot 1789
OAK MUSICAL LONGCASE CLOCK,
the painted dial with 13 3/4" chapter ring and inner date ring, centred with a pastoral scene and inscribed Sam. Ashton Bredbury, flanked by spandrils of maidens allegorical of the four seasons, beneath a pair of terrestrial hemispheres and moonphase, the brass, five pillar movement chiming to a nest of eight bells and striking to one bell, geared to play one of seven different aires each day of the week, the hood with broken swan neck pediment and brass mounted columns, the case with mahogany crossbanding and the door inlaid with a shell motif, with weights, pendulum and key, height 223cm
