GRANT FLEET STREET, LONDON, LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
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A late George III quarter chiming small bracket clock
Grant Fleet Street, London, last quarter 18th Century
The case with pineapple finial surmounting a dome with square plinth on the break-arch top, pierced brass fish-scale sound frets to the sides, brass-lined base on bracket feet, the dial signed Grant Fleet Street London within the silvered centre engraved with scrolling foliage and exotic birds, narrow silvered Roman chapter ring with pierced blued hands (later minute hand), foliate spandrels, strike/silent ring in the arch, the four pillar triple chain fusee movement chiming on eight bells via eight hammers, anchor escapement, the backplate similarly signed within a foliate engraved cartouche
13¼ in. (33.5 cm.) high
Grant Fleet Street, London, last quarter 18th Century
The case with pineapple finial surmounting a dome with square plinth on the break-arch top, pierced brass fish-scale sound frets to the sides, brass-lined base on bracket feet, the dial signed Grant Fleet Street London within the silvered centre engraved with scrolling foliage and exotic birds, narrow silvered Roman chapter ring with pierced blued hands (later minute hand), foliate spandrels, strike/silent ring in the arch, the four pillar triple chain fusee movement chiming on eight bells via eight hammers, anchor escapement, the backplate similarly signed within a foliate engraved cartouche
13¼ in. (33.5 cm.) high