A George III oak longcase clock, 33cm circular brass dial wi...

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£600 - £1,000

A George III oak longcase clock, 33cm circular brass dial with Roman chapter, Arabic minutes chapter, star engraved winding arbours pierced steel hands, signed Whitehurst, Derby, eight day movement striking on a bell, arched hood supported on turned Doric columns, shaped rectangular top to trunk door, flanked by reeded quarter-columns, skirted base with canted angles, bracket feet, 209cm high, 1760/1770 John Whitehurst FRS was born 1713 son of a Congleton maker, who set up in Derby in 1736, and became a founding member of the Lunar Society, the father of modern geological science and an scientist of note. He moved to London in 1780 and died at Bolt Court, Fleet St in 1788. His nephew, John Whitehurst II (1761-1834) took over the business which survived until 1861. He introduced round brass dials on his clocks, much imitated subsequently, in 1760.