Clocktime: Milbourn Tompion Longcase c1699, 03 The Case

Thomas Tompion - Milbourn Tompion walnut-veneered month-going longcase clock No. 333.
Join Dr John C Taylor OBE from the Clocktime digital museum as he discusses the case of the Milbourn Tompion, circa 1699.
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The early un-numbered Tompion longcases and then his numbered series up to the 200s and the start of the 300s are all in the same way, they have the blend between the hood and the trunk, as a convex moulding in the tradition started by Fromanteel with the very first longcase clock. And the fashions changed and these are now concave mouldings. You have to move design on. You have to make it look modern and this is one of the earliest of the concave mouldings in the Tompion series. So, the veneer on the door here, you see it's got a reflection in the centre here and then each of the two have got a reflection on the three-quarter and the quarter levels. There are four panels, each cut from one piece of burr veneer to give the reflection, one, two and then the reflection three, four. So, on the base you can see that there are four quarter veneers, which are mirrored this way and that way so that each of the four has been cut out of the same piece of wood and then mirrored horizontally and vertically.