Beschreibung:

A George I ebonised, gilt-brass and ivory-mounted month-going astronomical longcase clock with equation of time and duplex escapement Daniel Delander London. Circa 1715 The dial with silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with half hour and half quarter hour markers, later blued steel hands, the matted gilt centre with subsidiary seconds ring beneath XII engraved every six seconds, the lunar ring above VI calibrated 1-29 and with inner concentric ring indicating equation of time, the matting overlaid with silver floral swags and engraved Tempus aequale, et inaequale: horologio hoc indicatur. Differentia est aequatio temporaria Flamstedy , the chapter ring enclosed by an ivory mask within a gilt-brass breakarch frame, the arch set with a revolving moon sphere enclosed by adjustable shutters, the concave lower section signed Delander LONDON above a cut-out sector displaying the annual calendar with a chamfered silver frame engraved with indications for; Sun's Place - Sun's Rising and Setting - Sun's Amplitude - Sun's Rt Ascention - Sun's Declination - Days of the month , the dial secured to the movement with four latched feet, the movement with thick brass rectangular plates with six pinned pillars, reversed five wheel trains, inside rack strike on a bell above the plates, the equation cam mounted on the front plate, double wheel duplex escapement (inner 'scape wheel replaced), the movement secured to the oak seatboard with three latched brass brackets at the base of the movement plates, the re-ebonised case with heavy cavetto arched mouldings to the hood with substantial gilt-brass Corinthian columns on scroll pedestals and flanking the dial framed by a heavy gilt-brass moulded door frame, the rectangular trunk door with twin raised panels within a heavy gilt-brass moulding, the panelled plinth resting on elaborate gilt-brass scrolling feet. 7ft. 11in. (242cm.) high