CASE: the case with drum hood flanked by leaf carved scrolls and inset with Gothic sound frets to the sides, the trunk with glazed door, bordered with ebony, and panelled plinth raised on pad feet, DIAL: the silvered 12 inch dial with Roman hours and outer minute track, with subsidiary seconds dial and 'strike/silent' lever above XII, signed 'Barwise / LONDON', moon hands, MOVEMENT: the rack and bell striking movement with deadbeat escapement, jewelled pallets and maintaining power, the weights carried to the sides on rollers, the interior with a silvered beat plaque, lacking pendulum
80¹⁄₄ in. (203.8 cm.) high; 19¹⁄₄ in. (49 cm.) wide; 10 in. (25 cm.) deep

Almost certainly acquired by Sir John Josiah Guest (1785-1852) and Lady Charlotte Guest (1812-1895) for Canford Manor, Dorset,
thence by descent to their son, Ivor Bertie Guest (1835-1914), 1st Baron Wimborne, where photographed in Lord Wimborne's Bedroom in 1888,
thence by descent to Ivor Churchill Guest (1873-1939), 1st Viscount Wimborne, where removed to Ashby St Ledgers Manor, Northamptonshire, where photographed in the Lower Hall, before 1951,
thence by descent.

'Ashby St Ledgers, Northamptonshire - II', Country Life, vol. CIX, 3 August 1951, pp. 348-351, fig. 4.

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