Important South African & International Art, Furniture, Decorative Arts & Jewellery
Live Auction, 17 March 2014
English Silver, Furniture and Porcelain
Lot Estimate
ZAR 40 000 - 50 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 43 199
About this Item
Dublin, Ireland
An Irish mahogany longcase clock, Charles Craig, Dublin, circa 1775
33,4cm dial with Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds dial, calendar aperture, ring-turned winding holes. cherub-mask and leaf spandrels, signedon the silvered chapter ring Chas. Craig, Dublin, five-pillar rack and bell striking movement, the hood with swan neck cresting and carved flower terminals flanking a later urn finial above a carved foliate frieze centred by a shell, leaf-capped stop-fluted hood pillars, broken-arch trunk door, with later panelled plinth base, 234cm high