A stripped pine clock housekeepers cupboard, first half 19th century, the stepped ogive cornice above a glazed oval dial door enclosing a 17" painted oval enamel dial with Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds dial and date aperture and marked indistinctly, W Evans, Shrewsbury, within gilt and coloured florally painted borders, 8 day movement striking on a bell over a ribbed trunk door and flanked by double panel cupboard doors enclosing a painted interior of shelves, above two pull-out slides, the lower section centred by a panel cupboard door flanked by eight drawers and between fluted canted angles, distressed, 86" wide, 20" deep, 96" high