RICHARD RICHARDSON, ASTON (CHESHIRE) A MID 18TH CENTURY QUARTER CHIMING LONGCASE CLOCK the oak case crossbanded in walnut having an arched moulded pediment above a pierced frieze and arched glazed door flanked by turned pillars on a slender trunk with reeded quarter columns and shaped top door on a box base with raised panel. The 13.5" arched brass dial with engraved wheatear border, gilt four-season spandrels and silvered chapter ring enclosing a matted centre with subsidiary seconds dial and calendar aperture; the winding holes surrounded by applied numbered and engraved rings, the arch enclosing a silvered engraved rolling moon aperture with two whales forming the mouth fronting a substantial six pillar eight-day weight driven movement chiming the quarters on six bells and the hour on a larger bell 229cm high