This ebony case with brass enrichments is designed in the early 19th century French 'antique' manner with stepped and cone-finialed dome, and fluted-ribbon bands. The lion-mask handles accompanying imbricated panels feature in Thomas Hope's, Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807, pl. XI, and this clock is most likely to have been manufactured by John Grant senior (d.1810), the eminent Fleet Street clock maker, rather than his son John (b.1790 d. after 1867) who succeeded to his father's business

A closely related case with movement by R. Rolfe, Clerkenwell is illustrated in R. Edwards, 'The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture', Andover 1977, 6th impression, p. 240 fig 47