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A WALNUT AND FLORAL MARQUETRY EIGHT DAY LONGCASE CLOCK The movement and dial by Mark Hawkins, Bury St. Edmonds, mid 18th century; the case Dutch mid-to late 18th century The five pillar rack and bell striking movement with anchor escapement regulated by seconds pendulum, the 12 inch gilt brass dial with star-decorated subsidiary seconds dial, foliate border engraved calendar aperture, ringed winding holes and applied silvered nameplate signed Mark Hawkins, St. Edmonds Bury to the matted centre within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with fleur-de-lys half hour markers and Arabic five minutes to outer track, with scroll-pierced blued steel hands and gilt female mask and scroll cast spandrels to angles, now in a case with carved giltwood Atlas and Angel figural finials to the bird and floral trail inlaid concave-sided 'pagoda' pediment over parquetry banded break-arch cavetto cornice and integral leafy trail inlaid three-quarter columns applied to the chevron-strung hinged glazed dial aperture, the sides with rectangular windows within conforming borders and bargeboards at the rear, the trunk with leaf decorated concave throat moulding over rectangular caddy moulded door inlaid with tied ribbon over bird inhabited floral infill enveloping circular lenticle aperture to centre within chevron-strung border, with conforming decoration to the slender canted front angles and the sides further decorated with foliage, the plinth base with stepped-ogee top moulding and further marquetry panel to fascia flanked by scroll outline canted projections decorated with putti, scrolls and floral trails to angles, on lions paw feet. 247cm (97ins) high, 67.5cm (27.5ins) wide, 33cm (13ins) deep. Provenance: The Selwyn Demmy Collection. Mark Hawkins senior is recorded in Loomes, Brian Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World, Volume 2 as working from circa 1701-50; his son of the same name was born in 1706 and followed his father into the clockmaking trade working until his death in 1767.