A mid-18th century 30-hour weight-driven longcase clock by G...

Hammer

£240

A mid-18th century 30-hour weight-driven longcase clock by Giles Bennett of Malmesbury - the bell-strike movement with four knopped pillars, fronted by a square brass dial signed to the Roman chapter ring and engraved to the centre with flowers, foliage and a seated squirrel 'seated' on the chamfered date aperture, an Arabic subsidiary dial at 12, with gilt-brass floral and leafy scroll spandrels, with a single lead weight and brass and lead pendulum, the oak case with ogee moulded caddy top on parcel-gilt three-quarter columns, over a plain trunk and base with later stained pine bracket foot plinth, probably reduced in height, 206 cm high.
* Giles Bennett is recorded in G H Baillie, 'Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World' as working in Malmesbury from 1752 to 1766.