A GEORGE III MAHOGANY TABLE/BRACKET CLOCK WITH TRIP-HOUR REP...

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£1,500 - £2,500

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY TABLE/BRACKET CLOCK WITH TRIP-HOUR REPEATEDWARD SCALES, LONDON, CIRCA 1775The five pillar twin chain fusee bell striking movement with verge escapement regulated by short bob pendulum, the backplate engraved symmetrical foliate scrollwork with a scribed line border, the 7 inch brass break-arch dial with calendar aperture and recessed shaped silvered signature plate Edw Scales, London to the finely matted centre within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with Arabic five minutes beyond the outer minute track, with scroll-pierced steel hands and applied rococo scroll cast spandrels to angles, beneath arch centred with subsidiary Strike/Silent selection dial flanked by conforming mounts, the case with hinged brass carrying handle and brass pineapple finials to the 'inverted bell-top' superstructure over double cavetto top mouldings and hinged front incorporating raised mouldings bordering the glazed dial aperture and scroll pierced frets to the upper quadrants, the sides with circular over concave-topped rectangular scroll-pierced sound frets and the rear with rectangular break-arch glazed door set within the frame of the case, on cavetto moulded skirt base with squab feet.47.5cm (18.75ins) high with handle down, 26.5cm (10.5ins) wide, 18cm (7ins) deep.Edward Scales is recorded in Britten, F.J. Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers as working from 33 Strand, London circa 1775-80.The engraving to the backplate of the present clock broadly conforms to a backplate of a clock by John Scott, London illustrated in Dzik, Sunny ENGRAVING ON ENGLISH TABLE CLOCKS - Art on a Canvas of Brass 1660-1800 page 361 (Figure 20.5).