A WALNUT AND FLORAL MARQUETRY EIGHT-DAY LONGCASE CLOCKTHE MOVEMENT AND DIAL BY LANGLEY BRADLEY, LONDON, 18th CENTURYThe five finned pillar outside countwheel bell striking movement with anchor escapement regulated by seconds pendulum, the 12 inch square brass dial with subsidiary seconds dial, ringed winding holes and scroll border engraved calendar aperture to the matted centre within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with cruciform scroll half hour markers, Arabic five minutes beyond the minute track and signed Lang. Bradley, London to lower margin, with sculpted steel scroll hands and winged cherub mask and foliate scroll cast spandrels to angles within a foliate herringbone engraved border, now in a case with ebonised and floral trail inlaid concave cornice and scroll pierced frieze frieze over hinged glazed dial aperture incorporating conforming marquetry to surround and flanked by Solomonic three-quarter columns to the front angles, the sides with rectangular windows and conforming quarter columns set against bargeboards at the rear, the trunk with floral trail decorated concave throat moulding over 38.5 inch rectangular door inlaid with an architectural urn within bird inhabited flowering foliage into an ebonised ground, centred with a lenticle and with half round moulded surround set into a herringbone inlaid surround, the sides veneered with twin line-bordered panels over base with decorated concave ogee top moulding and conforming floral marquetry to fascia, on moulded skirt incorporating bracket feet with shaped apron between, (the case probably Dutch and includes a detached and dismantled caddy superstructure).220cm (86.5ins) high, 54cm (21.25ins) wide, 27cm (10.5ins) deep at the cornice. Langley Bradley is recorded in Loomes, Brian The Early CLOCKMAKERS of Great Britain 1286-1700 as born circa 1663, apprenticed in February 1687/88 to Joseph Wise and freed 1694. He worked at the Minute Dial in Fenchurch Street and was appointed Assistant of the Clockmakers'pany in 1720 and served as Master in 1726. By 1748 he had moved to Mile End. Langley Bradley is perhaps best known as a turret clock maker who wasmissioned by Sir Christopher Wren to supply the clock for St. Paul's Cathedral in 1707. The clock he supplied,plete with quarter jacks, was openly criticised for being costly and unreliable, although there was probably some truth behind thesements it seems that the resultant dispute may have been politically motivated. Indeed a Governmentmission was set up under the Chairman of Sir Isaac Newton which eventually resulted in the clock being replaced by one made by William Wright and Richard Street; the latter being a fine maker with connections to Tompion who was known to have supplied clocks for Sir Isaac Newton. Despite this embarrassment Sir Christopher Wren attempted to influence the Crown's potential appointment of Langley Bradley as official clockmaker to Queen Anne, describing him as 'a very able arti