LOT 96 A fine and rare late 17th century carved walnut Dutch-striking longcase clock with alarm and calendar Fromanteel
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Fromanteel The case surmounted by the original carved cresting with deeply carved and highly detailed foliage to the front and both sides (maximum height of the cresting 14cms, maximum depth 4cms), over a similarly carved frieze on carved composite columns to the rear and recessed front angles with applied balusters, the side sound apertures backed by red silk and containing further scrolled carving, set on a long trunk with fully pierced and carved 40-inch long door centred by a foliate carved lenticle, the sides set with matching panels of the same lively carving, the rear barge boards set with spirally twisted quarter columns terminating in Corinthian capitals, on a panel base with applied swags and scrolls on a flared base, the 10.5inch square brass dial with elaborate winged cherub's head spandrels interspersed by engraved foliage to the upper and sides, the lower edge centred by the flowing signature, the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with outer minutes and inner quarter-hour tracks enclosing the finely matted centre with subsidiary dial for running seconds over the silvered alarm setting disc, ringed winding squares and calendar apertures for date of the month, and sign and day of the week, the weight driven eight day movement with plates united by five knopped and ringed pillars latched to the frontplate, the going train terminating in an anchor escapement, the strike train with inside countwheel activating a pair of steel hammers acting on two bells, the smaller mounted vertically between the plates, the larger set traditionally above the movement. The alarm train mounted to the right hand side of the movement with vertical T-bar hammer striking inside the larger bell. 219cms (7ft 2ins) high.
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