ALEX WILSON, LONDON, FOURTH QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY STRIKING BRACKET CLOCK
alex wilson, london, fourth quarter 18th century
The dial with narrow silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with pierced blued steel hands, finely matted centre with decorated mock pendulum and calendar apertures, foliate spandrels, the arch signed Alexr. Wilson, London on a shaped silvered sector flanked by twin subsidiary rings for strike/silent and pendulum regulation, the five pillar twin gut fusee movement with verge escapement and strike on bell, the backplate profusely engraved with scrolling foliage, the case with handle to bell top with four pineapple finials, glazed sides, front and rear doors with foliate pierced wood quarter sound frets and on brass bracket feet
18in. (46cm.) high
alex wilson, london, fourth quarter 18th century
The dial with narrow silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with pierced blued steel hands, finely matted centre with decorated mock pendulum and calendar apertures, foliate spandrels, the arch signed Alexr. Wilson, London on a shaped silvered sector flanked by twin subsidiary rings for strike/silent and pendulum regulation, the five pillar twin gut fusee movement with verge escapement and strike on bell, the backplate profusely engraved with scrolling foliage, the case with handle to bell top with four pineapple finials, glazed sides, front and rear doors with foliate pierced wood quarter sound frets and on brass bracket feet
18in. (46cm.) high