WILLIAM WARD, SPILSBY. A LATE GEORGE III OAK CASED ADAM AND EVE AUTOMATON LONGCASE CLOCK the hood with swan neck pediment above a glazed door with brass capped reeded columns on a slender trunk with moulded edge door and canted corners on a box base. The 12" painted arch dial having floral painted spandrels and Roman chapter ring surrounding a subsidiary seconds dial and calendar aperture, the arch with automaton scene depicting Adam and Eve with the forbidden fruit fronting an eight-day weight-driven movement striking the hours on a bell.

211cm high