Good Dutch walnut eight day longcase clock with various comp...

Estimate

£3,000 - £5,000

Good Dutch walnut eight day longcase clock with various complications, the 14" rounded arched dial signed Jan Henkels on the wide silvered chapter ring under six o'clock, enclosing a gilded and foliate engraved centre with calendar work and moon phase apertures, also with a subsidiary seconds dial, over a recessed automata featuring windmills, sailing boats and figures fishing before rural painted scenes, the movement striking the hours on one bell, the first quarter past with one stroke on the same bell, the full hour at half past on another bell, also the quarter to the hour on the same bell, the calendar work is automatic for a thirty-one day month needing to be corrected for other months by pushing round the date ring, the large windmill only operates whilst the clock is striking, the case with foliate carved beaded waisted door, fitted with an oval bronze overlaid figural cast lenticle and also inlaid with a vase of flowers and a reserve of musical instruments, the bombé base with a central foliate inlaid reserve enclosed by boxwood lines and the hood surmounted by a wavy moulded foliate carved cornice and caddy top with blind foliate fret carved frieze, 93" high (pendulum, two weights and winding key)