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A George II ebonised and brass-mounted quarter-chiming bracket clock, third quarter 18th century
The case with brass handle to bell top, caryatid and cherub cast sound frets to the sides with roundels above, the front door with brass frets to top, on stepped and moulded base, the brass dial with painted rolling moon (some retouching) within a raised polychrome painted arch, with conforming floral decoration to the centres of the subsidiary silvered rings for strike/silent and pendulum rise and fall (connecting lever broken), with foliate spandrels to the silvered chapter ring with cut in winding holes at III and IX, matted centre with date aperture, signed on a silvered plaque to the centre Step.n Rimbault London, with black painted cut steel hands, the five pillar triple wire fusee movement with anchor conversion, quarter chiming on a nest of eight bells and with hour strike on further bell, pull trip quarter repeat, the backplate elaborately engraved with foliate scrolls and with later pendulum holdfast, with Percy Webster label to inside rear door -- 17in. (44cm.) high
The case with brass handle to bell top, caryatid and cherub cast sound frets to the sides with roundels above, the front door with brass frets to top, on stepped and moulded base, the brass dial with painted rolling moon (some retouching) within a raised polychrome painted arch, with conforming floral decoration to the centres of the subsidiary silvered rings for strike/silent and pendulum rise and fall (connecting lever broken), with foliate spandrels to the silvered chapter ring with cut in winding holes at III and IX, matted centre with date aperture, signed on a silvered plaque to the centre Step.n Rimbault London, with black painted cut steel hands, the five pillar triple wire fusee movement with anchor conversion, quarter chiming on a nest of eight bells and with hour strike on further bell, pull trip quarter repeat, the backplate elaborately engraved with foliate scrolls and with later pendulum holdfast, with Percy Webster label to inside rear door -- 17in. (44cm.) high