A George I Walnut and Silver-Gilt ‘Miniature’ Striking Table Clock

CASE: the bell top with ringed loop handle, arched door with sound frets to the angles, the arched sides with pierced frets with silk backing, glazed aperture to the rear door, on a plain moulded spreading foot, rear door with impressed inventory stamp ‘269A’, the underside with brass covered aperture to start pendulum, with exhibition and collection labels to underside DIAL: 3 ½ inch arched dial plate, the inset silver champleve chapter ring with Roman hours and Arabic five minutes, half-hour markers, the matted centre with date aperture and signature reserves ‘D.HUBERT / LONDON’, pierced hour and minute hands, ‘STRIKE / SILENT’ subsidiary dial to the arch, the plate applied with brass spandrels engraved with trailing foliage and cherubs MOVEMENT: the twin train movement with plates joined by seven pillars, chain fusees with verge escapement, hour strike to bell and pull repeat via three hammers, the backplate profusely engraved with floral garlands and foliage

Estimate:£12,000

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