A small Victorian gilt brass mounted mahogany bracket clock in the George III style Unsigned, last quarter of the 19th century The four pillar twin chain fusee gong striking movement with half deadbeat escapement regulated by heavy lenticular bob pendulum with holdfast to backplate, the 5 inch ogee-arch top gilt brass dial with fine rosette and foliate scroll engraved centre within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with fleur-de-lys half hour markers and Arabic five minutes to outer track, with blued steel hands and fine scroll pierced and engraved fretted infill to spandrel areas and continuing up into the arch to envelop the subsidiary STRIKE/SILENT selection dial, the bell top case with gilt brass carrying handle and moulded collar to superstructure over ball finials and complex upper mouldings, the front door with gilt fillet bordered glazed dial aperture and engraved scroll pierced upper rail and quadrant frets flanked by brass stop-fluted canted angles, the sides with further fine scroll pieced and engraved ogee-arch topped fretwork panels set within gilt brass fillet surrounds, the rear matching the front, on brass bound cavetto moulded skirt base with slender out swept bracket feet, 37cm (14.5ins) high excluding handle. Condition report disclaimer
A small Victorian gilt brass mounted mahogany bracket clock in the George III style Unsigned, last quarter of the 19th century The four pillar twin chain fusee gong striking movement with half deadbeat escapement regulated by heavy lenticular bob pendulum with holdfast to backplate, the 5 inch ogee-arch top gilt brass dial with fine rosette and foliate scroll engraved centre within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with fleur-de-lys half hour markers and Arabic five minutes to outer track, with blued steel hands and fine scroll pierced and engraved fretted infill to spandrel areas and continuing up into the arch to envelop the subsidiary STRIKE/SILENT selection dial, the bell top case with gilt brass carrying handle and moulded collar to superstructure over ball finials and complex upper mouldings, the front door with gilt fillet bordered glazed dial aperture and engraved scroll pierced upper rail and quadrant frets flanked by brass stop-fluted canted angles, the sides with further fine scroll pieced and engraved ogee-arch topped fretwork panels set within gilt brass fillet surrounds, the rear matching the front, on brass bound cavetto moulded skirt base with slender out swept bracket feet, 37cm (14.5ins) high excluding handle. Condition report disclaimer
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