A FINE WILLIAM III FIGURED WALNUT EIGHT-DAY LONGCASE CLOCK LEONARD HALL, SOUTHWARK, CIRCA 1695 The 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, subsidiary seconds dial and scroll engraved calendar aperture to the matted centre within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with stylised sword hilt half hour markers, Arabic five minutes beyond the minute track and signed Leonard Hall, Southwark to lower edge, with scroll pierced blued steel hands and winged cherub mask and scroll cast spandrels to angles set within a line-scribed border to the dial plate, the case with generous projecting ogee cornice and foliate scroll pierced frieze fret to the entablature above hinged glazed dial aperture flanked by Solomonic columns, the sides with rectangular glazed windows and conforming quarter columns set against bargeboards at the rear, the trunk with convex throat over 42 inch rectangular door book-match veneered in figured walnut, centred with a circular lenticle and bordered by cross-grain D-shaped mouldings, the sides with two crossbanded panels, the plinth base with stepped ogee top moulding over crossbanded book-matched front panel and bun feet. 203cm (80ins) high, 48cm (19ins) wide, 25.5cm (10ins) deep. Leonard Hall is recorded in Loomes, Brian Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World, Complete 21st Century Edition as working circa 1690-1720.
A FINE WILLIAM III FIGURED WALNUT EIGHT-DAY LONGCASE CLOCK LEONARD HALL, SOUTHWARK, CIRCA 1695 The 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, subsidiary seconds dial and scroll engraved calendar aperture to the matted centre within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with stylised sword hilt half hour markers, Arabic five minutes beyond the minute track and signed Leonard Hall, Southwark to lower edge, with scroll pierced blued steel hands and winged cherub mask and scroll cast spandrels to angles set within a line-scribed border to the dial plate, the case with generous projecting ogee cornice and foliate scroll pierced frieze fret to the entablature above hinged glazed dial aperture flanked by Solomonic columns, the sides with rectangular glazed windows and conforming quarter columns set against bargeboards at the rear, the trunk with convex throat over 42 inch rectangular door book-match veneered in figured walnut, centred with a circular lenticle and bordered by cross-grain D-shaped mouldings, the sides with two crossbanded panels, the plinth base with stepped ogee top moulding over crossbanded book-matched front panel and bun feet. 203cm (80ins) high, 48cm (19ins) wide, 25.5cm (10ins) deep. Leonard Hall is recorded in Loomes, Brian Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World, Complete 21st Century Edition as working circa 1690-1720.
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