Beschreibung:

An exceptional George III mahogany and gilt-brass mounted quarter-chiming and musical table clock with moonphase and calendar for the Spanish market Eardley Norton, London. Last quarter 18th century The case with gilt-brass leaf and tassel mounts to the brass lined bell top, foliate pierced and engraved sound frets to the gallery, each angle applied with gilt-brass mounts cast with trailing C scrolls and flowerheads, the sides each with circular and shaped sound frets also engraved and silk backed, with handles above, the brass-framed front and rear doors with conforming quarter frets, on a brass-lined base with shaped aprons and raised on foliate scroll cast feet, the breakarch brass dial with brass foliate spandrels to a white enamel Roman and Arabic chapter disc with inner concentric calendar ring, signed in the centre EARDLEY NORTON LONDON , with pierced blued steel hands, subsidiary enamel discs above for TOCAR/SILENCIO and TANER/NO TANER , with painted rolling moon above within an enamel arch with twelve tune selection ( Contra-danza, El Picader.s, Minuet, March, Gavotto, Minuet, Bow Bells, Nancy Dawson, March, O What Pleasure, A Dance, March ), the six pillar movement with massive Y-shaped plates, quadruple chain fusees with verge escapement, with hour strike via two hammers simultaneously striking two nested bells, the quarters chimed on eight bells via eight hammers and small diameter transverse mounted 4¾in. long pinned cylinder above the front plate, the music playing on the hour on the extended nest of thirteen bells and via seventeen hammers and a large 9½in. long pinned cylinder transverse-mounted across the backplate, with trip for music, the backplate elaborately engraved with foliate scrolls and with repeat signature, with pendulum holdfast and movement securing brackets 28¾in. (73cm.) high