A George III ebonized striking bracket clock, the case on gilt-brass bracket feet with trellis-pierced wood sound frets to sides, foliate cast gilt-metal 1/4 frets to the front door, carrying handle to the bell top, the dial signed Wm. Ward London on the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with finely pierced blued hands, mock pendulum and calendar apertures to the finely matted centre, foliate spandrels, strike/silent ring in the arch, the five pillar twin fusee movement with strike on bell and original verge escapement, the backplate signed Wm. Ward Bloomsbury London in a reserve within finely executed foliate engraving with pendulum holdfast, similarly engraved securing brackets to case