Henry De La Feuille of London-early 18th century marquetry 8-day longcase clock c 1720, hood with a moulded upstand to the domed caddy top, set on a lower upstand above a wide cornice with a marquetry frieze beneath, square hood door with marquetry inlay and attached three-quarter columns with wooden capitals, hood sides with glazed panels, trunk and door inlaid with figural marquetry with various representations of people, birds, scrollwork and foliage, full length door with cock-beading surround and a circular glazed lenticle, the case sides veneered with bordered panels within crossbanded surrounds, plinth with a convex moulding and shallow moulded skirt, brass dial with a matted centre and ringed winding holes, date aperture and seconds dial, silvered chapter with Roman numerals, five minute Arabic’s, minute and inner quarter hour tracks and half-our markers, with pierced steel hands and matching cast scroll spandrels depicting angels supporting a crown, dial pinned directly to a four pillar movement with an outside countwheel and recoil anchor escapement, striking the hours on a cast and polished bell.
With weights, pendulum and key.
Henry De La Feuille was a French Huguenot, born in 1670, moving to Jersey c1690 and finally London where he is thought to have died c1730.