AN INLAID MAHOGANY LONGCASE CLOCK, LATE 18TH CENTURY AND LATER

AN INLAID MAHOGANY LONGCASE CLOCK, LATE 18TH CENTURY AND LATER

13½-inch dial with mask and scroll spandrels, signed Richd Ketty, Dublin, matted centre with subsidiary seconds dial, date aperture and ringed winding holes, the added arch applied with a miniature portrait on ivory of a lady, the movement striking on a later coiled gong, the associated case with swan neck cresting and fluted hood pillars, shaped trunk door flankied by reeded pilasters, the trunk and plinth with later neoclassical inlay, on replaced ogee bracket feet; the hood door with a presentation plaque inscribed Presented to Viscount Powerscourt, M.V.O. by the officers of 1st Battn. Irish Guards.
230cm., 90½in. high