A George I green japanned eight-day longcase clock,
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A George I green japanned eight-day longcase clock, James Stevens, London, circa 1720, the four pillar inside countwheel bell striking movement with 12 inch brass break-arch dial with border-engraved calendar aperture and star decorated subsidiary seconds to the matted centre within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with fleur-de-lys half hour markers and signed James Stevens, London to lower edge, the angles with twin cherub and crown cast spandrels beneath arch applied with a rococo scroll cast cartouche centred with a silvered boss decorated with a mask and flanked by winged cherubs and putti holding flaming torches beneath upper border engraved with a curved herringbone decorated band, in a green ground gilt decorated case with domed caddy surmount above cavetto cornice and three-quarter columns to hood door, the trunk with rectangular door decorated in raised polychrome and gilt with oriental figures and pagodas within gilt foliate trail decorated borders, on conforming plinth base with moulded double skirt (case with restoration), 236cm (93ins) high. James Stevens is recorded in Baillie, G.H. Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World as working in London circa 1710.
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A George I green japanned eight-day longcase clock,
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