EDMUND APPLY, AT CHARING CROSS. A WILLIAM AND MARY EBONY VEN...

Hammer

£4,800

EDMUND APPLY, AT CHARING CROSS. A WILLIAM AND MARY EBONY VENEERED GILT BRASS MOUNTED BASKET TOP BRACKET CLOCK the gilt embossed floral scrollwork basket with double-sided dolphin's folding handle and red fabric lining above a glazed door with applied brass fretwork panels; glazed sides and back door and moulded plinth base raised on block feet. 6.5-inch brass dial with fine gilded winged cherub's head spandrels, silvered chapter ring with inner quarters markers and matted centre with date aperture below a Strike/Not Strike lever fronting a double fusee gut wound movement with five reversed ringed tapering baluster pillars and verge escapement with bob pendulum, hour strike and pull quarter repeat on a further three bells; the profusely engraved tulip backplate with similarly signed centre cartouche. (34cm high)