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A GEORGE II EBONISED STRIKING BRACKET CLOCK
Benjn: Gray. Just. Vulliamy London
The case with handle to inverted bell top, later foliate pierced-wood quarter frets to the front door and similarly pierced sound frets to the sides, the dial signed Benjn: Gray. Just. Vulliamy London on a silvered plaque in the foliate engraved arch flanked by subsidiary silvered rings for pendulum regulation and strike/silent and having pierced blued steel hands, the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with finely pierced blued steel hands, calendar and false pendulum apertures to the matted centre, foliate spandrels, the five pillar twin gut fusee movement with verge escapement (re-converted), strike on bell, the backplate engraved with scrolling foliage similarly signed in a central foliate cartouche, pendulum holdfast and engraved movement securing brackets to the case; purpose-made ebonised wall bracket with foward-sliding section for the key compartment
24¼ in. (49 cm.) high over clock; 29 in. (74 cm.) high with bracket (2)
