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THOMAS WILLMORE, LONDON
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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY STRIKING BRACKET CLOCK WITH CALENDAR
Thomas Willmore, London
The case with pineapple finials to the bell-top, brass trailing floral caryatides to the front angles, the glazed sides with brass handles and base on brass bracket feet, the dial signed Thos. Willmore, London on a silvered sector within the matted centre, the narrow silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with inner concentric calendar ring, elaborately pierced blued steel hands and blued steel arrow head calendar hand, foliate spandrels, strike/silent ring in the arch, the five pillar twin wire fusee movement with verge escapement and strike on a bell, the backplate engraved with foliage and fruit centred by an engraved figure of pulchinello, similarily engraved pendulum holdfast and movement securing brackets to the case
23½ in. (60 cm.) high
Thomas Willmore, London
The case with pineapple finials to the bell-top, brass trailing floral caryatides to the front angles, the glazed sides with brass handles and base on brass bracket feet, the dial signed Thos. Willmore, London on a silvered sector within the matted centre, the narrow silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with inner concentric calendar ring, elaborately pierced blued steel hands and blued steel arrow head calendar hand, foliate spandrels, strike/silent ring in the arch, the five pillar twin wire fusee movement with verge escapement and strike on a bell, the backplate engraved with foliage and fruit centred by an engraved figure of pulchinello, similarily engraved pendulum holdfast and movement securing brackets to the case
23½ in. (60 cm.) high
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