Beschreibung:

A George III green japanned eight-day longcase clock with moonphase, Richard Wills, Truro, circa 1780 The four pillar rack and bell striking movement with anchor escapement regulated by seconds pendulum, the 12 inch brass break-arch dial with subsidiary seconds dial and calendar dial to the square rigged sailing ship, beached hoy and scroll engraved silvered centre engraved Rich. Wells, TRURO, within Roman numeral chapter ring with Arabic five minutes to outer track, with scroll pierced steel hands and rococo scroll cast spandrels to angles beneath arch with rolling moonphase incorporating landscape engraved lunettes, age of the moon and HIGH WATER AT GUERNSEY ISLAND times to the upper margin, in a green japanned case with gilt floral and radial fan painted pagoda upstand over geometric band decorated break-arch cavetto cornice and trellis banded hood door applied with three-quarter columns to front angles, the sides with rectangular windows and conforming quarter columns set against bargeboards at the rear, the trunk with floral trail painted throat over break-arch door decorated in raised polychrome and gilt with oriental figures within a stylised garden trellis landscape over square rigged warship, the surround with abstract foliate scroll painted upper quadrants and geometric banded borders, the sides with large leafy sprays, the plinth base with naturalistic landscape and now incorporating bracket feet with shaped apron between, 216cm (85ins) high. Richard Wills is recorded in Baillie, G.H. Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World as working in Truro, Cornwall circa 1777-95.