AN OAK LONGCASE IN DUTCH STYLE, 19TH CENTURY the brass and iron birdcage style movement with an anchor escapement and striking on two bells, on a later brass dial with a base metal chapter ring with black Roman hours and Arabic five minutes with a subsidiary seconds dial and an engraved centre inside foliate spandrels and beneath a sunburst to the arch, case with a lift-off hood with an arched door beneath 'C' scroll fretwork, on a tapering trunk with a 'rococo' lenticle, on a bombe base and claw feet, with carved, 'rococo' scroll, foliage and rocaille 249cm high Provenance Kenneth Neame: An Enduring Legacy. TO BE SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE.

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