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A William III parquetry banded walnut eight-day longcase clock, Samuel Barrow, London, circa 1695-1700 The five finned pillar inside countwheel bell striking movement with anchor escapement regulated by seconds pendulum, the 11 inch square brass dial with subsidiary seconds dial, ringed winding holes and triple-crown decorated calendar aperture to the matted centre within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with stylised sword hilt half hour markers, Arabic five minutes to outer track and signed Sam. Barrow, Londini Fecit to lower margin, with scroll pierced steel hands and twin winged cherub and foliate scroll cast spandrels to angles with foliate scroll engraved infill to margins between, in a figured walnut case with parquetry chevron banded ogee cornice and scroll pierced fretwork frieze over conforming decoration to hood door applied with three-quarter columns to angles, the sides with rectangular glazed panels, the trunk with convex throat over 41.5 inch oval lentical centred book-matched veneered rectangular trunk door within parquetry banded surround, the sides each with three ebony and boxwood triple line bordered panels within crossbanded borders, the plinth base with ogee top moulding over panel veneered and banded front and moulded skirt incorporating bracket feet with shaped apron between, 207cm (81.5ins) high. Samuel Barrow is recorded in Loomes, Brian Clockmakers of Britain 1286-1700 as born in around 1674 and apprenticed to John Barrow in 1688 until 1695 gaining his freedom of the Clockmakers’ Company in 1696. He worked at the Spring Clock in East Smithfield near Hermitage Bridge, and was still active in 1704.

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