16th Nov, 2019 10:00 GMT/BST

Autumn Fine Art Sale (Part II)

 
  Lot 604
 


Lot 604 - ~ A Fine and Rare Fourteen Tune Musical Eight Day Longcase Clock with an Unusual Dial Display...
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604

~ A Fine and Rare Fourteen Tune Musical Eight Day Longcase Clock with an Unusual Dial Display...

~ A Fine and Rare Fourteen Tune Musical Eight Day Longcase Clock with an Unusual Dial Display for Lunar Equation/Date and Solar Rise and Fall on a Year Equation, signed Hugh Lough, Penrith, 1773, swan neck pediment, Corinthian capped columns, arched trunk door flanked by inset fluted pilasters, plinth with blind fret canted corners, large triple weight driven movement with an anchor escapement, playing fourteen tunes on a nest of thirteen bells once every six hours, striking a larger bell for the hours, 247cm high, sold with a photocopy of an article by the Antiquarian Horology Society regarding a clock made by Hugh Lough of Penrith and a cut out of this clock pictured on the front page of the Antiques Trade Gazette see illustrations

This clock was purchased from a Cumbrian auctioneers in 2013. As recorded in the ATG report of that sale the then vendor bought the clock from a local dealer in 1974 and it had previously been in the Lough family.
Hugh Lough was born in Penrith in 1739 and worked as a clockmaker until his death in 1790. Only around twenty clocks have been documented by Hugh Lough and these are usually eight day and thirty hour brass dial examples. This must be one of Hugh Lough's masterpiece examples of his work, which is a true reflection of his outstanding workmanship.

Sold for £9,500
Estimated at £7,000 - £9,000


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14.10.19 Case with later side doors, hood with chips in parts and a small repair to the front right hand corner, trunk and plinth sides with small cracks, dial and movement are clean, movement fly with one piece of brass missing, movement is working, musical mechanism is working, all the other musical tunes have not been tested for the working condition, it is the valuers opinion that the case is original to the dial and movement

 

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Auction: Autumn Fine Art Sale (Part II), 16th Nov, 2019

Autumn Fine Art Sale (Part II)

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