AN OYSTER WALNUT VENEERED EIGHT-DAY LONGCASE CLOCK The movement and dial by Isaac Goddard, London, late 17th century and later The four finned pillar inside countwheel bell striking movement with anchor escapement regulated by seconds pendulum, the 12 inch square brass dial with subsidiary seconds dial, ringed winding holes and Ho-Ho bird and crown decorated scroll border engraved calendar aperture to the matted centre within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with stylised sword hilt half hour markers, Arabic five minutes to outer track and signed Isaac Goddard, LONDON to lower margin, with scroll pierced steel hands and twin cherub and crown cast spandrels to angles within a herringbone engraved border to the dial plate, now in a case with rebuilt hood incorporating complex crossgrain moulded cornice and plain frieze over free-standing Solomonic twist columns flanking the hinged glazed dial aperture, the sides with repeating oyster decorated panels and further full columns set against bargeboards at the rear, the trunk with oyster veneered convex throat over 42 inch door centred with and oval lenticle and fronted with further conforming repeating oyster veneered panel with crossbanded border and half-round crossgrain mouldings, the sides also veneered with oysters within crossbanding over plinth base with complex top mouldings and conforming decoration to front on later moulded skirt. 207cm (81.5ins) high, 52cm (20.5ins) wide, 28cm (14ins) deep. Isaac Goddard is recorded in Baillie, G.H. Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World as apprenticed in 1675, gaining his freedom of the Clockmaker's Company in 1684 and working until 1699. The case of the current clock incorporates a trunk and base of the finest quality made for an 11 inch dial clock in around 1690.