A George III oak and mahogany Neo-Classical long case clock,...

Hammer

£200

A George III oak and mahogany Neo-Classical long case clock, round painted 13.5in (34.2cm) dial, Roman and Arabic chapter, seconds dial, pierced gilt hands, ringed winding arbors, signed Condliff/Sheffield 8--day movement striking on a bell, Gothick trunk door with inlaid borders, inlaid in ebny and boxwood, curly pediment with marquetry inlaid paterae, grooved pylons to angles with central conforming fan, supported on unusual inlaid pillars with delicately carved Tower of the Winds capitals, shaped brass escutcheon with contemporary key flanked by fluted quarter columns, bracket feet, pendulum and weights, 85in (215.9cm) high (4) Martin Condliff and his brother Joseph (of Chapel-en-le-Frith) were apprenticed to Samuel Ashton of Ashbourne, Martin on 23rd September 1777 (having been born 1763); he set in Ashbourne in 1785, but by 1790 was married and working from 27, Far Gate, Sheffield. He was father to the eminent James Condliff of Liverpool (1790-1851)