A George III oak cased long case automaton clock, circa 1780...

Hammer

£420

A George III oak cased long case automaton clock, circa 1780, 11 inch brass arched dial with black Roman numerals, half hour markers, minute track and five minute numerals, matte centre with date aperture, subsidiary seconds and signed name plaque engraved 'Willm Sayer Devizes', applied spandrels, the arch with painted roundel of a bearded 'Old Man Time' whose eyes move back and forth with the beat of the clock, twin train four pillar 8 day movement chiming on a bell, the hood with broken swan neck pediment and cast brass roundels with urn surmount, reed columns flanking the glazed hood door, the case later profusely carved with floral friezes, borders and decorative roundels, arched full length trunk door, raised on shaped bracket feet, with two weights, pendulum and winder, 45 by 21 by 214cm high.