Harcroft House Sale
Live Auction, 18 November 2019
Session Two
Lot Estimate
ZAR 18 000 - 20 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 20 484
About this Item
London, England
An English oak eight-day longcase clock, Andrew Moran, London, 18/19th century
the 43cm brass dial with a brass chapter ring with Roman hour numerals and Arabic minute numerals, subsidiary seconds dial and date aperture, with spandrels to the corners, the cartouche in the arch engraved Andrew Moran, Earl Streets, Giles, London, flanked by dolphin spandrels, the four pillar anchor movement striking the full hour on a bell, the arched hood with glazed door flanked by Doric columns, the broken swan-neck pediment surmounted by Atlas flanked by two winged trumpeters, the trunk with a panelled door, on a plinth base, on bracket feet, loss to beading on the plinth, the subsidiary seconds dial lacking seconds hand, figures re-gilded, 222cm high