Lot 7208
W. Phillips of Bromyard - 8-day mahogany longcase with a painted moon roller dial, c 1790,
swans ne...
W. Phillips of Bromyard - 8-day mahogany longcase with a painted moon roller dial, c 1790,
swans neck pediment with dog tooth moulding, raised carving and brass paterie, break arch hood door beneath flanked by reeded pilasters with brass Corinthian capitals, trunk with a blind fret, reeded quarter columns and long wavy topped door,
Plinth with a deep moulding and canted corners raised on a shaped base, painted dial with gesso spandrels, Roman numerals, five minute Arabic's and minute dots, with steel hands, seconds dial and square date aperture, dial pinned to a rack striking movement with an anchor escapement, striking the hours on a cast bell. A clockmaker by the name of John Phillips is recorded as working in Bromyard (Worcs) in the early to mid 18th century, certainly by 1770-90. W. Phillips was possibly an unrecorded son or brother also working in the same family clockmaking business during the later part of the 18th century.
B20782
SOLD £700