£2,000
PIETER GIB, ROTTERDAM. A FINE 18TH CENTURY DUTCH BURR WALNUT AND MARQUETRY INLAID 8 DAY LONG CASE CLOCK the arched brass dial with engraved border enclosing a calibrated painted star-spangled moon disc above crowned mask head Rococo spandrels and a silvered Roman chapter ring with Arabic outer minute markings enclosing a matted centre with subsidiary seconds, ringed winding holes and date aperture fronting a substantial brass plated movement with five finned baluster pillars, hour/half hour rack strike on two bells and anchor escapement. The scroll pedimented fretted hood with arched pierced sound frets and moulded hood door pilasters above a cross-grain moulded arch-top full-length trunk door with cast brass bordered pendulum aperture inlaid with birds and stags above a bombe' shaped base with scrolled sides and deep plinth base raised on later shaped bracket feet. (241cm high)
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