Floor standing clock

A long case equation clock of burr-walnut veneer with a break-arch dial and an early example of a sliding hood,, capped with brass ball and finial, and a glazed door covering the dial, below the hood is early convex moulding.

The movement is of a year duration and the escapement, which anchor pallets inverted, is at the base of the movement. The pendulum swings behind the dial and the bob can be seen through a glzed panel in the door.

The clockface has four gilt metal foliate spandrels with putti faces and a silvered chapter ring divided into 24 hours in Roman numerals and an outer minute circle - inscribed 'Apparant Time' - which moves backwards and forwards to record against the fixed hour circule. In the arch the two apertures above the dial record the signs of the zodiac and an eliptic circle showing the sun's position.