Longcase clock with painted and gilded decoration. English, ca 1930. Designed and painted by MacDonald Gill.

Casework constructed from mahogony with applied mouldings and plywood backboard, clock shelf and chime board. Exterior painted in a scheme of greens and gold, and includes three panels of floral decoration.

The brass clock dial incorporates sun, moon and star motifs and face of a woman wearing spectacles [an illusion to this as a grandmother clock]. MacDonald Gill, known as Max, designed and painted this clock for Edward W. Hunter, the founder of the Sun Engraving Co. The initials of the Hunter family are incorporated into the decorative scheme on either side of the clock face. 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.