Lot 12
A SCOTTISH MAHOGANY LONGCASE CLOCK, ROBERT CURRER, FALKIRK
19TH CENTURY
Scottish Works of Art & Whisky | 696
Auction: 17 August 2022 at 11:00 BST
Estimate: £600 - £800
Description
the hood with a swan-neck pediment mounted with gilt brass rosettes above an arched painted dial depicting scenes of British commerce and figures to the spandrels representing Europe, Asia, America, and Africa, with subsidiary seconds and calendar dials and twin winding holes, flanked by columns above a shaped trunk door and corner columns, on a moulded plinth with bracket feet, the twin-train, eight-day movement striking a bell
Dimensions
218cm high, 51cm wide, 26cm deep
Footnote
Note: Robert Currer, clockmaker, was born in Peebles and set up business in Falkirk in 1839. Two longcase clocks by Currer are in the Falkirk Museum, one with a similar dial to the present lot.