A QUARTER CHIMING AND STRIKING TURRET CLOCK WITH CHEVRON-SHAPED DIAL

Red=painted flatbed frame, with pin-wheel escapement and maintaining power, signed high-relief panel, with heavy red-painted cast-iron bob pendulum and three cast-iron weights, and a crank key and pulleys, the oak blue and gilt decorated chevron-shaped dial with motion work behind, and with grey-painted steel mounting frame for the dial

The movement 104cm wide, on wooden block feet

The dial 145cm square

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:

Michael S. Potts, Potts of Leeds, Five Generations of Clockmakers, Ashbourne, 2006.

CONDITION REPORT

In need of restoration; with its pendulum; the suspension steel and hook are broken and lost;  with three weights and crank key