Beschreibung:

A George I small ebony striking bracket clock, in the style of George Graham Daniel Quare & Stephen Horseman, London, No. 246. Circa 1720 The case with brass handle to the inverted bell top, finely pierced later ebony sound frets to the sides and to the front door with foliate cast gilt-metal escutcheon, the 5 x 5½ in. sq. dial signed Dan: Quare Ste: Horseman London on a silvered plaque flanked by subsidiary silvered rings for strike/silent and pendulum regulation, the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with half hour and half quarter hour markers, pierced blued steel hands, the matted centre with mock pendulum and calendar apertures, the diminuitive movement with rectangular brass plates secured by six ringed baluster pillars (five pinned and centre pillar latched), pivoted verge escapement with rise-and-fall regulation arm across the top of the backplate, twin fusees (wire lines), the repeat system with foliate engraved spring sub-barrel planted on the backplate activating a small bell for the quarters and larger bell for the hours, the backplate signed Dan: Quare Ste: Horseman London. 246 within a foliate cartouche centred by an engraved mask supporting a basket of flowers issuing garlands of flowers held at the sides by winged putti, all amongst finely engraved scrolling foliage and within a wheatear-engraved border with similarly engraved movement securing brackets to the case 12½ in. (32 cm.) high to hilt of handle