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A GEORGE I SILVER-MOUNTED STRIKING BRACKET CLOCK
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A GEORGE I SILVER-MOUNTED STRIKING BRACKET CLOCK
George Graham London No. 668
the case with typcial foliate-tied D-ended gilt handle to the inverted bell top, foliate pierced wood ebony sound frets to the sides and rear door and on block feet, the 5½x6½in. dial signed Geo: Graham. London above the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with lozenge half-hour markers, the finely matted centre with mock pendulum and calendar aperture with pin-hole adjustment, double-screwed silver mask-and-foliate spandrels, subsidiary silvered rings for pendulum regulation and strike/silent, all hands finely sculpted in blued steel, latches to the dial feet and to the seven baluster pillars of the twin chain fusee movement, verge escapement with gilt-rod pendulum with steel suspension affixed to the typical rise-and-fall regulation bar, strike on bell via internal rack system, the backplate twice punch-numbered 668 at the base and engraved with profuse scrolling foliage with heralds flanking the repeat signature with a basket of flowers above surmounted by a resplendent eagle, similarly engraved securing brackets to the case and with retaining bolts into bottom pillars
13½in. (34.5cm.) high
George Graham London No. 668
the case with typcial foliate-tied D-ended gilt handle to the inverted bell top, foliate pierced wood ebony sound frets to the sides and rear door and on block feet, the 5½x6½in. dial signed Geo: Graham. London above the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with lozenge half-hour markers, the finely matted centre with mock pendulum and calendar aperture with pin-hole adjustment, double-screwed silver mask-and-foliate spandrels, subsidiary silvered rings for pendulum regulation and strike/silent, all hands finely sculpted in blued steel, latches to the dial feet and to the seven baluster pillars of the twin chain fusee movement, verge escapement with gilt-rod pendulum with steel suspension affixed to the typical rise-and-fall regulation bar, strike on bell via internal rack system, the backplate twice punch-numbered 668 at the base and engraved with profuse scrolling foliage with heralds flanking the repeat signature with a basket of flowers above surmounted by a resplendent eagle, similarly engraved securing brackets to the case and with retaining bolts into bottom pillars
13½in. (34.5cm.) high
Provenance
Sir John Prestige Collection, Sotheby's, London, 29 April, 1968, lot 58, to Garrard, #9,000