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A VICTORIAN ORMOLU MOUNTED EBONISED QUARTER CHIMING BRACKET CLOCK
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the case with pineapple finials to the bell top, foliate cast sound frets and handles to the sides, female trailing flower caryatids to the angles and on foliate scroll feet, foliate cast bezel to the arched engraved silvered dial with Roman chapter ring and piereced blued hands, subsidiary rings in the florally engraved arch for chime/silent, regulation and chime on eight bells/chime on four gongs, the massive triple chain fusee movement with anchor escapement, chiming on eight bells or four gongs with hour strike on further larger gong, pendulum holdfast to the plain backplate
28½in. (72cm.) high
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the case with pineapple finials to the bell top, foliate cast sound frets and handles to the sides, female trailing flower caryatids to the angles and on foliate scroll feet, foliate cast bezel to the arched engraved silvered dial with Roman chapter ring and piereced blued hands, subsidiary rings in the florally engraved arch for chime/silent, regulation and chime on eight bells/chime on four gongs, the massive triple chain fusee movement with anchor escapement, chiming on eight bells or four gongs with hour strike on further larger gong, pendulum holdfast to the plain backplate
28½in. (72cm.) high