A GEORGE II/III WALNUT EIGHT-DAY LONGCASE CLOCKTHOMAS CHAPMAN, BATH, CIRCA 1750The five pillar rack and bell striking movement with anchor escapement regulated by seconds pendulum, the 12 inch brass break-arch dial with subsidiary seconds dial and calendar aperture to the matted centre within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with Arabic five minutes beyond the minute track, with pierced blued steel hands and twin bird-and-urn cast spandrels to angles beneath arch centred with a silvered signature boss engraved Tho:'s Chapman, BATH flanked by dolphin cast mounts, the case with architectural cross-grain moulded cornice and foliate pierced blind frets to the upper quadrants flanking the arch of the hinged glazed dial aperture applied with Doric three-quarter columns to front angles, the sides with rectangular windows and quarter columns set against bargeboards to rear, the trunk with rectangular quarter-veneered caddy moulded door decorated with a parquetry band border, the plinth base with ogee top moulding and conforming parquetry border to the book-match veneered front over later skirt incorporating shaped apron.215.5cm (85ins) high, 48cm (19ins) wide, 25cm (9.75ins) deep at the cornice.Thomas Chapman on Bath does not appear to be recorded in the ual sourced however he is likely that he is related to a William Chapman who is recorded on Moore, A.J. THE CLOCKMAKERS OF SOMERSET 1650-1900 as working in Frome 1785-1811.