A GEORGE II MAHOGANY EIGHT-DAY LONGCASE CLOCKJAMES SEDGWICK, LONDON, CIRCA 1775The five pillar rack and bell striking movement with anchor escapement regulated by seconds pendulum, the 12 inch brass break-arch dial with recessed star-engraved silvered subsidiary seconds dial, calendar aperture and arched nameplate engraved James Sedgwick London to the matted centre within narrow applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with Arabic five minutes beyond the minute track, with scroll pierced steel hands and rococo cast spandrels to angles beneath vestigial STRIKE/SILENT selection dial flanked by conforming mounts to arch, the case with concave sided 'pagoda' tand with shaped aperture to fascia over cavetto moulded break-arch cornice and hinged glazed dial aperture flanked by brass stop-fluted columns, the sides with rectangular windows and plain quarter columns set against bargeboards at the rear, the trunk with concave throat moulding over flame figured mahogany veneered break-arch door applied withplex mouldings to edges and flanked by brass stop-fluted quarter columns to front angles, the base with concave top mouldings over rectangular raised panel incorporating curved quadrants to corners and moulded double skirt with shaped apron.239cm (94ins) high excluding finials, 53.5cm (21ins) wide, 27cm (10.5ins) deep.James Sedgwick appears not to be recorded in the ual sources however he is most likely closely related to Henry Sedgwick who is recorded in Baillie, G.H. Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World as working in Bartholomew Close, London, in 1766.