$6,518
Mahogany Longcase Clock by Nathaniel Brown, Manchester, England, c. 1790, the scroll-top case with cast brass rosettes, gilded decoration on the tympanum with central sunburst and flanking rooster and owl, fluted columns with Corninthian capitals flanking the composite brass and painted dial with moon's age in the arch and signed Nathaniel Brown, Manchester , highly figured serpentine-top waist door flanked by stop-fluted quarter columns and Corinthian capitals all on ogee feet, eight-day time and rack and snail strike movement with two tin-cased weights and pendulum, ht. 90 in. Ogee feet are replacements.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2010-05-01