A Good Walnut Eight Day Longcase Clock, signed Joseph Windmills, Londini

A Good Walnut Eight Day Longcase Clock, signed Joseph Windmills, Londini, Fecit, circa 1705, A Good Walnut Eight Day Longcase Clock, signed Joseph Windmills, Londini, Fecit, circa 1705, the caddy top pediment with gilt wooden ball finials, carved gilt wood corbels beneath the hood, well figured trunk door with glazed lenticle, 11-inch square brass dial with a Roman and Arabic silvered chapter ring signed J Windmills Londini Fecit, dial centre with ringed date aperture and seconds dial, crown and cherub spandrels with foliage engraving between, six latched pillar movement with an anchor escapement and inside countwheel striking on a bell 250cm high Provenance: From the estate of Peter Haigh, Norwood Green, Halifax, J Windmills Londini Fecit Joseph Windmills is recorded as one of the important clockmakers of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, He was free of the Clockmakers Company in July 1671. He worked at first in St Martin Le Grand before moving to Mark Lane End Tower Street in 1687. In 1699 he was appointed Warden of the Clockmakers Company and sat on the committees with Master clockmaker Thomas Tompion. In c1702 he succeeded Tompion as Master of the Clockmakers Company.

Estimate:£5,000

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