A QUEEN ANNE MUSICAL LONGCASE CLOCK, BY JOSEPH WINDMILLS, LONDON, CIRCA 1705

• Lot Sold $27,000 (Hammer Price)
• $32,400 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

the arched top with a moulded cornice above a pierced fretwork panel above an arched glazed door flanked by plain columns with brass mounts, with pierced carved sound frets to either side above a long door and cross-banded base with a stepped plinth, the 12 inch dial with a silvered chapter ring with Roman and Arabic numerals, seconds subsidiary dial and date aperture, cast bronze cherub and crown spandrels, with a twelve tune selector in the form of a sunburst design, with an 8 day movement with twelve tunes playing on twelve bells and twenty three hammers, four repeat five pillar movement strikes the hour and plays selected tunes three times every third hour; 249CM HIGH'

NOTE The Twelve tunes: (1) The Grenadier March; (2) The Rummer; (3) The Spanish Jig; (4) A Brigadoon; (5) The Three Generals Health; (6) A Young Virgin of Fifteen; (7) An English Sibel; (8) Sweet is our Blessing; (9) The Mouse Trap; (10) The Happy Clown; (11) Bright Arcadia; (12) The Beautiful Phillis. For two other twelve tune musical clocks see Joseph & Thomas Windmills, Clock & Watch Makers 1671-1737, by J.A. Neale, published by The Antiquarian Horological Society 1999, pages 146-147.

PROVENANCE John Dixon Antiques Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand, W.F. Bradshaw, Present Owner;