Nathaniel Hodges, in Wine Office Court in Fleet Streete, Londini Fecit
The shallow caddy top surmounted by an unusual foliate bud handle on gadrooned pommels, over four repousse brass mounts covering silk-backed apertures, each centred by a cherub's head over a bold foliate swag, with well moulded cornice over glazed rectangular side panels to a moulded base on squat brass feet, the 6.75 inch square brass dial with winged cherubs head spandrels surrounding the silvered Roman chapter ring with outer minute track, the Arabic numerals set within the track itself, and to the inner edge, a line quarter-hour track, the centre finely matted and with blued steel hands, the twin gut fusee movement united by five knopped pillars, the verge escapement with outside countwheel strike on a bell and repeating the quarters on a smaller bell, the backplate signed in a drapery cartouche Nathaniel Hodges/Londini Fecit and below, in a straight line 'in wine Office Court in fleete Streete' 37cms (14.5ins) high