MAKER-THOMAS RADFORD,LEEDS,

CIRCA 1790.

Listed Maker

A superb George111 flame mahogany longcase clock, with moonphase and 8-day movement, striking the hours on a bell.

The 14 inch arched enamelled dial with  subsidiary seconds and calendar dials. The painted Wilson dial shows the faces of the moon alternating with a galleon seascape and a lady in a rural landscape. The corners of the dial have attractive paintings of flowers.The hood has swan neck pediments and brass finial with  fluted Corinthian columns. The good quality figured mahogany case is of excellent colour with satinwood chequer banding to the top and sides of the trunk and to the canted corners of the base.The shaped  long trunk door is flanked by reeded pillars and has book matched flame mahogany veneers with ebony stringing.The base has similar flame mahogany veneers  and in addition oval boxwood detail. The clock stands on small bracket feet. The good quality 8-day movement has been cleaned and overhauled and is in good working order with working calendar and moon dials.

Height 91in  (231cm)

Width of hood 21.5(55cm)            Depth of hood 10in(25cm)

Width of base 20.5in(52cm)              Depth of base 10in(25cm)

Width of trunk 16.5in(42cm)             Depth of trunk 7.5in(19cm)

The maker Thomas Radford is listed in Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World (21^st century edition)  by Brian Loomes as being born circa1731,apprenticed 1745 to Dolliff Rollisson of Halton (near Leeds,Yorkshire) worked “near the Cross,Leeds,”married Eleanor Spence in1759 and died in 1801

PRICE: £3,700 / $6,290 (US Dollars) / 4,625 Euro

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