A WALNUT EIGHT-DAY LONGCASE CLOCKTHE DIAL SIGNED JAMES GAMBLE, LEEDS, LATE 17th CENTURY AND LATERThe five finned pillar inside countwheel bell striking movement with anchor escapement regulated by seconds pendulum, the 11 inch square brass dial with ringed winding holes, elaborate sculpted border decorated calendar aperture and subsidiary seconds dial to the rose engraved matted centre, within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with sword hilt half hour markers and Arabic five minutes beyond the minute track, with fine generous sculpted steel hands and cherub mask and scroll cast spandrels to angles with foliate scroll engraved infill between and signed James Gamble at Leeds to lower edge, now in a case with complex moulded cornice over hinged glazed dial aperture applied with Doric columns to angles, rectangular side windows and conforming quarter columns set against bargeboards at the rear, the trunk with concave throat moulding over rectangular caddy moulded quarter veneered and crossbanded door flanked by reeded canted angles, the plinth base with stepped cavetto top mouldings and conforming herringbone banded panel to fascia over double skirt.214cm (84.25ins) high, 46cm (18ins) wide, 27.5cm (10.75ins) deep.James Gamble of Leeds does not appear to be recorded I the usual sources however the overall feel of the movement and the style/design of the engraving to the design would suggest that he was a London-trained clock maker.