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A GEORGE III BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY STRIKING AND MUSICAL EIGHT DAY TABLE CLOCK
A GEORGE III BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY STRIKING AND MUSICAL EIGHT DAY TABLE CLOCK

ROBERT HENDERSON, LONDON. LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE III BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY STRIKING AND MUSICAL EIGHT DAY TABLE CLOCK
ROBERT HENDERSON, LONDON. LATE 18TH CENTURY
CASE: with brass handle to bell top, now silvered pineapple finials to corners, glazed side panels, with floral caryatid mounts to the front angles, on brass bracket feet DIAL: 6¾ in. wide brass dial with foliate spandrels to silvered chapter ring, matted centre with date aperture, the arch with subsidiary rings for strike/not strike and chime/not chime, signed on a plaque between 'Rob.t Henderson/London', with six tune selection above ('Miss Fox's Minuet/ye fair Posses'd/March in Scipio/Suky bids me/Miss Murray's Minuet/Nancy Dawson') MOVEMENT: six pillars, triple line fusees with verge escapement, hour strike on bell and music on a further fourteen bells with twenty-six hammers using 7½ in. pinned barrel positioned across the top of a foliate engraved back plate, trip repeats for strike and music trains; restorations
19¾ in. (50 cm.) high, handle down; 13 in. (33 cm.) wide; 9¾ in. (25 cm.) deep

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Robert Henderson is recorded at St Martin's Court, London (1772) and 18 Bridgewater Square (1800-1805). A.W.J.H Ord-Hume (The Musical Clock, Mayfield, 1995, p. 298) mentions a 'musical chimney bracket clock' which plays three of the tunes listed above - possibly this clock.