W. Helliwell, Chorley a moon-phase longcase clock: having an eight-day duration movement striking the hours on a bell, the fourteen-inch brass break-arch dial having a raised silvered chapter ring engraved with black Roman numerals, outer Arabic five-minute numerals with the maker's name engraved either side of VI o'clock W. Helliwell, Chorley, the silvered centre engraved with rococo style decoration and having a subsidiary seconds dial and date aperture, the arch having a moonphase disc decorated with landscape and seascape scenes, with cast-brass rococo spandrels to the four corners and blued steel hands, the mahogany case having a shaped top to the trunk door and fluted quarter columns, with the hood having fluted pillars with cast-brass capitals, a swan-neck pediment with verre eglomisé panels of gilded decoration on blue glass, with an oriental finial to the centre and two turned wooden side finials, the base having canted corners, a raised shaped panel and standing on bracket feet, height 236cms.