A RARE AND UNUSUAL GEORGE III AUTOMATON STRIKING BRACKET CLOCK

The bell top case with handle surmount and four turned and engraved finials, above a glazed panel door with brass grille panels to the sides, on plinth base and brass bracket feet, the 6 3/4in. arched brass and painted dial with a scene of a farrier’s yard, furnace and two horses being shoed, above the silvered chapter ring enclosing the signature, above calendar aperture, blued steel hands, the twin train movement with foliate engraved backplate, fully signed Thomas Bray, Next St. Margarets Church Westminster, with verge escapement and strike on a bell

54cm high 

Condition report:  The case is in good condition.  There are some small veneer repairs as would be expected in places.  The finials and mounts to the pediment may be later replacements?  The dial is in good condition.  There is some slight loss to edges on the painted automata panel.  The movement has been maintained well.  The automata engagement rod from the pendulum appears to be missing a soldered piece so partially works.  The other fine tapered metal wires appear to engage with each other. The movement ticks when wound and strikes.