Jacob Odell, George II Figured walnut longcase clock. (c. 1725 St Albans)

Jason Odell

  235.00 cm high

  92.52 inches high

JACOB ODELL, St Albans

A fine George II period figured walnut longcase clock with 8-day brass dial movement which strikes the hours on a single bell.

The finely matted brass dial has urn and foliate gilt corner spandrels an engraving of a bird and the word Tempus Fugit in the arch. There is a subsidiary seconds dial, inset datework and the maker's signature is finely engraved on a cartouche above VI.

The well proportioned arch top case has fine crossgrain mouldings and well figured walnut veneers. The hood has plain turned walnut columns with brass capitals and well carved sound frets in the arch. The arched case door is well figured and is crossbanded outside a herringbone border.

Date: Circa 1740
Height: 92 ½ inches (235cm)

* Jacob Odell is recorded on page 579 Brian Loomes’ Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World: 21st Century Edition . He was born 1697 and apprenticed in 1713 to Thomas Russell of Wootton (Beds). Odell was working in Wootton in 1719 and then St Albans (Herts) during the 1740’s. Provincial walnut longcases in the London style are comparative rarities.

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