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A late Victorian brass-mounted quarter-chiming large bracket clock, late 19th century
The case with stepped pediment to the breakarch top with pineapple finials, with fluted brass columns to the recessed front angles, foliate cast sound frets to the sides, with ripple-moulded banding to the plinth above a foliate cast gallery, on fluted brass-capped toupie feet, the brass dial with silvered chapter ring and matted centre, foliate scroll and shell spandrels, with subsidiary rings to the arch for chime/silent, slow/fast and chime on eight bells/Westminster, quatrefoil-pierced sound fret panel to rear door, the triple chain fusee movement with anchor escapement, quarter-chiming on a nest of eight bells or four gongs and with hour strike on further gong, the backplate stamped 1066, with pendulum holdfast
29¼in. (74cm.) high
The case with stepped pediment to the breakarch top with pineapple finials, with fluted brass columns to the recessed front angles, foliate cast sound frets to the sides, with ripple-moulded banding to the plinth above a foliate cast gallery, on fluted brass-capped toupie feet, the brass dial with silvered chapter ring and matted centre, foliate scroll and shell spandrels, with subsidiary rings to the arch for chime/silent, slow/fast and chime on eight bells/Westminster, quatrefoil-pierced sound fret panel to rear door, the triple chain fusee movement with anchor escapement, quarter-chiming on a nest of eight bells or four gongs and with hour strike on further gong, the backplate stamped 1066, with pendulum holdfast
29¼in. (74cm.) high