CASE DETAILS
High quality "cabinet maker made" long door case with finely detailed crossbanding and stringing.Beautifully executed hood columns and matching slender trunk columns. Canted corners to book matched veneered base.Swan neck pediment. Ogee bracket feet.
DIAL DETAILS
13" breakarch brass dial with moonphases to arch, subsidiary seconds dial and centre sweep calendar.Exquisitely engraved dial centre.Blued cut steel hour and minute hands, polished brass seconds and calendar pointer.Cast rococo spandrels.
MOVEMENT DETAILS
Good quality 4 pillar movement with centre sweep calendar, hourly ( rack ) striking.
MAKER DETAILS
Monkhouse of Carlisle.
DATE - Circa 1780.
HEIGHT - 93.3" ( 237 cms. ) or 91"( 231 cms. ) ex finial.