A GEORGE II MAHOGANY QUARTER-STRIKING LONGCASE CLOCK

A GEORGE II MAHOGANY QUARTER-STRIKING LONGCASE CLOCK
HENRY HARRISON, LONDON, CIRCA 1735
The arched pediment centring an allegorical bust of Time above shell-carved volutes and guilloche flanking a brass dial with unusual seasonal figural spandrels in the Dutch manner, to silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with fleur-de-lys half hour markers and signed 'Henry Harrison/LONDON', the matted centre with subsidiary seconds ring, ringed winding holes and date aperture, with blued steel pierced hands, the arch applied with relief figures of Mercury and Fortuna after Giambologna, flanking a silvered lunar date ring, its matted centre with engraved penny moon, the eight day movement with five ringed pillars and anchor escapement, with hour strike on bell and quarter chimes on a nest of six further bells strike cylinder, the tapering case with conforming door on a leaf-carved stepped molded plinth
96 in. (244 cm.) high; 22½ in. (57 cm.) wide; 11½ in. (60 cm.) deep

Provenance
with Anthony Woodburn, Kent.
Bought from Hotspur, London.
Private collection, New York.
Private collection, London.