Longcase clock

MacDonald Gill, known as Max, designed and painted this clock for Edward W. Hunter, the founder of the Sun Engraving Co. Gill may have had some of his work printed by Hunter's firm, but little is known about the circumstances of the commission or making of the clock. It stood in the hallway of Hunter's country home in Frensham, Surrey. Gill incorporated the stylised initials of the Hunter family members into the decorative scheme to the left and right of the clock face, with the parents on one side and the children on the other. The floral motif on the case, the colours and the hexagonal shape of the clock face are all typical of arts-and-crafts design in the early twentieth century.

Longcase clock · England · 1930. Mahogany clockcase with painted and gilded decoration. By Gill, MacDonald FRIBA. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.