A George Ii Gilt-Brass Mounted Ebony Striking Table Clock of Small

CASE: the bell top with loop handle, brass banding to glazing and frets overall, the moulded plinth raised on rectangular pad feet DIAL: 5 inch arched dial plate, the silvered chapter ring with Roman hours and Arabic five minute markers, lozenge half-hour and half quarter-hour markers, signed to the lower edge, John Ellicott / LONDON , the matted centre with mock pendulum aperture and date square, subsidiary ‘Strike / Silent’ dial above, foliate and mask spandrels MOVEMENT: the two-train gut fusee movement with plates joined by five pillars, verge escapement, hour strike to bell and pull repeat on a nest of four bells, the backplate profusely engraved and signed to the reserve ‘John Ellicot ( sic ) / London’,

Estimate:£5,000

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