An early 19th century oak and mahogany-cased 8-day longcase clock.

An early 19th century oak and mahogany-cased 8-day longcase clock.

G. Stones, Blackburn, circa 1830

The 14-inch break-arched white Roman dial with subsidiary seconds and terrestrial calendar dials flanking perching birds, within rose-painted green-ground spandrels beneath arch with lunar calendar and rolling moon phase painted with a castle and thatched cottage, the hemispheres with landscapes, the movement, with false-plate cast WHITE & WHITE, rack-striking on a bell, the case with swan-neck pediment over crossbanded short trunk door between fluted quadrants on canted inlaid base, 93.5", (237.5cm) high.