George Graham London A George II ebony and silver-mounted striking table clock with pull quarter repeat and silent verge escapement. Circa 1745/50 The case with foliate-tied gilt-brass handle to the inverted bell top, breakarch mouldings to the glazed sides, foliate cartouche ormolu mounts to the front door rails, the moulded base on squab ebony feet, the 5½ x 6¾ in. dial signed Geo: Graham London (with further similarly signed matted cartouche plaque), flanked by subsidiary silvered rings for pendulum regulation and strike/silent, foliate cast silver spandrels to the upper section, cherub mask-and-foliate spandrels to the lower corners, the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with pierced blued steel hands, the pounced gilt-brass centre with calendar and mock pendulum apertures, latches to the dial feet and to the seven pillars of the movement with thick brass rectangular plates, twin chain fusees, silent verge escapement, pull quarter repeat on Tompion's system via double-cocked blued steel interlocking levers mounted on the backplate, the pendulum suspended from a rack-and-pinion operated bar above the plates, the backplate signed Geo: Graham London 14½ in. (37 cm.) high
George Graham London A George II ebony and silver-mounted striking table clock with pull quarter repeat and silent verge escapement. Circa 1745/50 The case with foliate-tied gilt-brass handle to the inverted bell top, breakarch mouldings to the glazed sides, foliate cartouche ormolu mounts to the front door rails, the moulded base on squab ebony feet, the 5½ x 6¾ in. dial signed Geo: Graham London (with further similarly signed matted cartouche plaque), flanked by subsidiary silvered rings for pendulum regulation and strike/silent, foliate cast silver spandrels to the upper section, cherub mask-and-foliate spandrels to the lower corners, the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with pierced blued steel hands, the pounced gilt-brass centre with calendar and mock pendulum apertures, latches to the dial feet and to the seven pillars of the movement with thick brass rectangular plates, twin chain fusees, silent verge escapement, pull quarter repeat on Tompion's system via double-cocked blued steel interlocking levers mounted on the backplate, the pendulum suspended from a rack-and-pinion operated bar above the plates, the backplate signed Geo: Graham London 14½ in. (37 cm.) high
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