Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments
Description:
Highly Figured Mahogany Veneer Tall Clock, England, c. 1815, the scroll-top hood with fleur-de-lis inlay at center, turned rosettes and finials, freestanding turned columns with brass Corinthian capitals flanking the Roman numeral painted iron dial with floral spandrels, arch with a pot of flowers and stenciled decoration, pierced gilt hands and false plate cast Walker & Hughes, banded inlaid tombstone-shaped waist door, lamb's tongue chamfered columns over the crotch mahogany veneered French-foot base, eight-day, time and hour strike movement, two cast iron weights and period pendulum, ht. 93 in.
Estimate $2,500-4,500
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