A GEORGE II BLACK JAPANNED EIGHT-DAY LONGCASE CLOCKWILLIAM GOUGH, LONDON, CIRCA 1715The five finned pillar rack and bell striking movement with anchor escapement regulated by seconds pendulum, the 12 inch square brass dial with subsidiary seconds dial, herringbone border engraved calendar aperture and applied oval signature plate engraved W'm Gough, London to the matted centre, within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with fleur-de-lys half hour markers and Arabic five minutes beyond the minute track, with scroll pierced steel hands and Indian mask and scroll cast spandrels to angles within wheatear engraved border, the black japanned case with generoplex moulded cornice and foliate spray-centred gilt panel decorated frieze over hinged glazed dial aperture with delicate gilt floral sprays to surround and applied with Doric three-quarter columns to front angles, the sides with rectangular windows and conforming quarter columns to the rear, the trunk with convex throat moulding over rectangular door painted in raised polychrome and gilt with oriental garden landscapes and square-rigged wars within line painted half-round moulded borders and delicate foliate decorated surround, the sides with panels of large scale leafy sprays, on ogee moulded skirt base with conforming painted decoration to front and applied moulded skirt.218cm (86ins) high, 54.5cm (21.5ins) wide, 29cm (11.5ins) deep at the cornice.William Gough is recorded Baillie, G.H. Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World as working from before 1726 to circa 1760.