A RARE AND FINE EARLY 18TH CENTURY WALNUT ARABESQUE

A RARE AND FINE EARLY 18TH CENTURY WALNUT ARABESQUE SEAWEED MARQUETRY MONTH GOING LONGCASE CLOCK WITH TING TANG STRIKE, SIGNED MARKWICK, LONDON, CIRCA 1705
the hood with three quarter doric columns with brass capitals and a brass guilloche frieze above, with glazed sides panels, over the concave throat moulding and rectangular moulded door with brass mounted lenticle over a plinth base and squat bun feet, the sides with fruitwood strung panels, the twelve inch square brass dial with gilt floral and acanthus leaf spandrels, silvered Roman chapter ring signed 'Markwick London', with Arabic five minute markers, gilt matted centre and engraved and chamfered date aperture, with ringed winding squares and silvered subsidiary seconds dial, the weight driven movement with six knopped and finned pillars, with anchor escapement, with two hammers striking ting tang on a bell, with outside countwheel, with pendulum, two weights, winder and case key,
222cm high

Provenance: From a private collection.
Condition: Seen running in owner's home, but not fully tested or guaranteed.
Notes: Presumably by James (Jacobus) Markwick, who was apprenticed to Edward Gilpin in 1656 and made free in 1666. In 1673 he succeeded Mr. Samuel Betts as Steward of the Clockmakers' Company.