A Dutch walnut and inlaid longcase clock, Jan Berninck, Amsterdam, 18th century, the eight-day Dutch-striking movement with a 32cm silvered Roman numeral chapter ring on a 14 inch rectangular part cold painted brass dial, incorporating subsidiary seconds, month, day of the week, and moonphase above a theatrical proscenium arch enclosing the automaton with ships on a rough sea near a harbour, in a burr walnut and marquetry inlaid case with a baroque scroll surmounting the hood with blind fretwork and detached columns, the shaped trunk door with gilt metal aperture with Europa and the bull above the bombe shaped base and webbed claw and ball feet, 249cm high,