GEORGE II MAHOGANY MONTH-GOING LONGCASE CLOCK, DANIEL OR NATHANIEL DELANDER, LONDON 1730s the engraved silvered brass dial with Roman hours and subsidiary seconds dial with bolt and shutter maintaining power lever and winder cover, with a Duplex escapement, signed 'Delander/ London', the hood with a shaped and moulded cornice with reeded block finials and scroll brackets, and flanked by canted angles with brass lined stop fluting, above a shaped trunk door flanked by stop fluted quarter columns with brass capitals, on a plinth base outlined with moulding and raised on bracket feet; the month-going movement with duplex escapement with bolt and shutter retaining power(47cm wide, 207cm high, 25cm deep)Footnote: Note: The Delander family of clockmakers spanned several generations from the 17th into the latter 18th century, and produced superbly crafted and innovative clocks and timepieces. Arguably the most famous of the Delanders was Daniel, who was an inventor as well as a highly skilled clockmaker. He was apprenticed in 1692 to Charles Halstead and, later, to Thomas Tompion and became a member of the Clockmakers' Company in 1699. Among his innovations were a patented watch case spring closing mechanism, and a year-going equation. He is credited with improving the duplex escapement so that it could be used in longcase clocks. He died in 1733 and his son Nathaniel, also a highly respected maker, succeeded him, working until 1762. Clocks by Daniel are in the collection of the Guildhall Museum, the Weatherfield Collection, the Science Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.