A good George III ormolu-mounted and lacquered quarter chiming bracket clock, the case on elaborate cast foliate feet with similar mounts applied to the front, the side angles applied with trailing floral mounts, handles and foliate pierced and cast sound frets to the sides, the staged top with gadrooned and foliate finials with crescent moons to the angles and surmounting a cut glass domed top with cast foliate frieze sound fret, shaped foliate-cast glazed door to the dial signed Recordon, Spencer & Perkins London on the silvered centre with calendar aperture, silvered chapter ring with Turkish chapters and finely pierced blued hands, strike/silent ring in the arch, the dialplate painted with flowers, the five pillar triple fusee movement with verge escapement and chiming on 8 bells with hour strike on further bell, pendulum holdfast to the foliate engraved backplate and securing brackets to case

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A good George III ormolu-mounted and lacquered quarter chiming bracket clock, the case on elaborate cast foliate feet with similar mounts applied to the front, the side angles applied with trailing floral mounts, handles and foliate pierced and cast sound frets to the sides, the staged top with gadrooned and foliate finials with crescent moons to the angles and surmounting a cut glass domed top with cast foliate frieze sound fret, shaped foliate-cast glazed door to the dial signed Recordon, Spencer & Perkins London on the silvered centre with calendar aperture, silvered chapter ring with Turkish chapters and finely pierced blued hands, strike/silent ring in the arch, the dialplate painted with flowers, the five pillar triple fusee movement with verge escapement and chiming on 8 bells with hour strike on further bell, pendulum holdfast to the foliate engraved backplate and securing brackets to case
28½in. (72.5cm.) high

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