A gilt bronze mantel timepiece, the engine milled drum shaped case on volute supports and stiff-leaf cast gallery, with circular Roman dial, the single chain fusee with anchor escapement, the backplate with pendulum holdfast, signed Tupman, Great Russell St. London, the rectangular stepped plinth decorated with winged griffins flanking a flaming brazier, on bun feet, early 19th century -- 8 3/8in. (21.3cm.) high.