A George III gilt-wood striking bracket clock, the break-arch case surmounted by five urn finials supported on detached columns flanking finely carved giltwood sound frets to the sides, floral entrelac carving to the base on toupie feet, the dial signed Raymond London on a white enamel dial, white enamel strike/silent disc in the arch flanked by finely pierced and engraved foliate spandrels, the chapter disc beneath with Roman and Arabic chapters, pierced blued hands, similarly pierced and engraved spandrels, the five pillar twin gut fusee movement with strike/trip repeat on bell, knife-edge verge escapement with foliate engraved tear-drop backcock, similarly engraved backplate with a central foliate urn on a pedestal, similarly engraved securing brackets to the case

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A George III gilt-wood striking bracket clock, the break-arch case surmounted by five urn finials supported on detached columns flanking finely carved giltwood sound frets to the sides, floral entrelac carving to the base on toupie feet, the dial signed Raymond London on a white enamel dial, white enamel strike/silent disc in the arch flanked by finely pierced and engraved foliate spandrels, the chapter disc beneath with Roman and Arabic chapters, pierced blued hands, similarly pierced and engraved spandrels, the five pillar twin gut fusee movement with strike/trip repeat on bell, knife-edge verge escapement with foliate engraved tear-drop backcock, similarly engraved backplate with a central foliate urn on a pedestal, similarly engraved securing brackets to the case
18 1/2in. (47cm.) high

Lot Essay

George Raymond is recorded as working in Change Alley 1762-84.
The highly individual case for this clock is indirectly out of the Chippendale oeuvre. Another example also by Raymond is to be sold in these rooms on June 23 1994 as part of the chattels from Sobell House, its case is also of finely carved gilt-wood and has a similar dial with a white enamel chapter disc

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