Beschreibung:

A Queen Anne olive wood and floral marquetry eight-day longcase clock James Atfield, Old Brentford, early 18 th century The four (formerly five) finned pillar internal countwheel bell striking movement with anchor escapement regulated by seconds pendulum, the 12 inch square brass dial with star decorated subsidiary seconds ring, scroll border engraved calendar aperture and ringed winding holes to the matted centre within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with fleur-de-lys half hour markers, Arabic five minutes to outer track and signed Jam s Atfield, old Brentford to lower margin, with pierced blued steel hands and twin cherub and crown cast spandrels to angles with scroll engraved infill between, in a case with moulded cornice and walnut veneered frieze to lintel, over leafy trail inlaid glazed hood door applied with ebonised three-quarter columns to front angles, the sides with rectangular windows and conforming quarter columns set against bargeboards at the rear, the trunk with convex crossgrain veneered throat moulding over 42 inch rectangular door centred with a circular lenticle and decorated with bird inhabited floral sprays and scrolling foliage on an ebonised ground, the sides veneered with twin slender panels within crossbanded borders, the base with stepped ogee top moulding and conforming rectangular marquetry panel over moulded double skirt incorporating bracket feet with shaped apron between, 220cm (86.5ins) high. James Atfield of Old Brentford, Middlesex, is recorded in Loomes, Brian Clockmakers of Britain 1286-1700 as being mentioned, alongside his wife Jane, in a deed in 1705-8; he is believed to have worked to at least 1725.