John Bushman, London
The bell top case surmounted by a handle and four flaming urn finials over brass-mounted side apertures to a plinth base on block feet, the front door and side apertures set with brass sound frets, the 6 inch arched brass dial with subsidiary rise and fall regulation dial in the arch over the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with floating half hour markers and half-quarter lozenge marks around the matted centre with mock pendulum aperture, ringed winding squares and chamfered engraved date aperture, the twin gut fusee movement now with anchor escapement rack striking on a bell, with pull quarter repeating on a run of six bells and hammers, the backplate signed in an oval cartouche within foliate scrolls and birds, together with a later brass-mounted wall bracket 46cms (18ins) high excluding the wall bracket. 60cms (2ft) including wall bracket. (2)