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A rare Charles II longcase night clock movement
CIRCA 1685
A rare Charles II longcase night clock movement Circa 1685 The 11 x 13¼ in. latched dial engraved with columns to the sides and a moral verse to its lower section, the columns supporting engraved arch pierced with five minute and quarter hour markers, with bearded gargoyle at the apex, its inner edge serrated for minute indication, with upper spandrels densely engraved with stylised flowerheads; the centre with chequer-work tiling below a painted scene of a pavilion set against a mountainous landscape, centred by a subsidiary seconds disc, with revolving disc above painted with dancing putti and incorporating two apertures, respectively revealing the coming and the passing hours displayed upon a series of twelve pierced and linked brass plates, these carried around a ten-sided wheel, the sequence of the plates arranged with every fifth plate anti-clockwise being the next number to present itself through the aperture; the eight day movement with triangular plates joined by seven latched and ring-turned pillars, anchor escapement with outside countwheel strike on bell mounted between the plates With a later mahogany case