A GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND LINE-INLAID QUARTER CHIMING AND STRIKING BRACKET CLOCK

The break-arched case surmounted by a square-stepped top and three brass finials, above convex glass and 8in circular white-painted dial with pierced blued steel hands, the lower front inlaid with boxwood stringing and quatrefoils, between fluted quarter-columns, the sides each with a lion mask ring handle above grille panel,  on stepped plinth and brass ball feet; the three train wire gut fusée movement, signed, chiming the quarters on a carillon of eight bells, and the hour on a single larger bell, the back plate with engraved edge and pendulum locking block

59cm high

With its pendulum.  The clock case has been repolished at some point.  The dial paint is original but has some slight losses at four thirty, six to seven and nine o’clock. Some lifting veneer around the bezel lock.  The sound frets on the top are replaced.  A small veneer chip to the bottom front left corner.  The movement has been cleaned in the past but appears in need of a service.  The top pediment is loose and requires re-gluing.  The seatboard is not screwed to the movement and these screws are missing.  It also requires a support below it to take the weight of the movement which otherwise is supported by the two side screws through the case, with the weight resting on the dial in its opening.  

Provenance: Shakenhurst Hall, Cleobury Mortimer. For further information please refer to the Bellmans website article: https://www.bellmans.co.uk/story/bellmans-2