Good and rare mahogany automata eight day longcase clock, th...

Estimate

£2,000 - £4,000

Good and rare mahogany automata eight day longcase clock, the 12" silvered arched dial signed Isaac Court, Henley to the centre with subsidiary seconds dial and calendar aperture, with a painted automata scene to the arch depicting a man and woman playing with a bat and ball before a rural Lakeland landscape, also bearing the maker's monogram engraved to the movement back plate, the case with blind fret carvings above the long door and to the canted corners, surmounted by an ornate hood with swan neck cornice foliate mounts and three brass ball and eagle finials over pierced fretwork panels, 94" high (pendulum and two brass cased weights)