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A George III mahogany and brass-mounted musical bracket clock with alarm
Edward Pashler, London. Last quarter 18th century
The case with bell top surmounted by a later finial of two brass addorsed seated griffins, with urn finials to the angles, brass handles to the sides above glazed panels, the front and rear doors adapted with integral fluted pilasters to the sides, those to the front brass stop-fluted, with gilt-brass quarter frets, with wavy front apron and raised on brass bracket feet, the brass dial with replaced female spandrels to a re-engraved Roman and Arabic silvered chapter ring (Turkish chapters to reverse), gilt matted centre, with silvered alarm disc and date aperture (date ring later), blued steel hands, the arch with silvered band for six tune selection (14 Psalm, March in Rinaldo, Air, Duke of Cum.d, March in Scipio, Brittens Strike Home), with subsidiary silvered rings for strike/no strike and chime/no chime, each engraved to the centre, with recessed silvered plaque between signed Edw.d Pashler LONDON, the six pillar triple wire fusee movement converted to anchor escapement, with hour strike on bell and quarterly music on ten bells with nineteen hammers via a 8½in. pinned cylinder, all music bells and hammers replaced, the backplate engraved with foliate scrolls around a chinoiserie pagoda and with later pendulum holdfast, alarm train now lacking; with alterations and restorations
23½in. (60cm.) high