A George III brass mounted mahogany table clock
A George III brass mounted mahogany table clock Thomas Hunter Junior, London, circa 1775 The five pillar twin fusee bell striking movement with trip hour repeat and fine asymmetric rococo foliate scroll and engraved backplate centred with a basket of flowers, the 7 inch single sheet silvered brass break-arch dial with calendar aperture and fine engraved signature Tho?s Hunter Jun?r, LONDON to the centre within Roman numeral chapter ring with Arabic five minutes to outer track, with pierced steel hands beneath subsidiary Strike/Silent selection dial to arch, the bell top case with hinged brass carrying handle and four pineapple finials to the gilt brass rococo scroll mount fronted superstructure over cavetto top mouldings, the front with conforming cast upper quadrant frets and raised mouldings bordering the glazed dial aperture to the door flanked by cast female caryatid applied canted angles, the sides with fillet moulded circular above conforming concave topped rectangular side windows, the rear with break-arch blind panel inset rectangular door set within the frame of the case, on cavetto moulded skirt base with brass ogee bracket feet, 49cm (19.25ins) high excluding handle. Thomas Hunter junior is recorded in Baillie, G.H. Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World as apprenticed 1734 gaining his freedom in 1742, he worked from New Broad Street Buildings, was appointed Warden in 1762 then served as Master in 1765, he died in 1785.
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A George III brass mounted mahogany table clock Thomas Hunter Junior, London, circa 1775 The five pillar twin fusee bell striking movement with trip hour repeat and fine asymmetric rococo foliate scroll and engraved backplate centred with a basket of flowers, the 7 inch single sheet silvered brass break-arch dial with calendar aperture and fine engraved signature Tho?s Hunter Jun?r, LONDON to the centre within Roman numeral chapter ring with Arabic five minutes to outer track, with pierced steel hands beneath subsidiary Strike/Silent selection dial to arch, the bell top case with hinged brass carrying handle and four pineapple finials to the gilt brass rococo scroll mount fronted superstructure over cavetto top mouldings, the front with conforming cast upper quadrant frets and raised mouldings bordering the glazed dial aperture to the door flanked by cast female caryatid applied canted angles, the sides with fillet moulded circular above conforming concave topped rectangular side windows, the rear with break-arch blind panel inset rectangular door set within the frame of the case, on cavetto moulded skirt base with brass ogee bracket feet, 49cm (19.25ins) high excluding handle. Thomas Hunter junior is recorded in Baillie, G.H. Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World as apprenticed 1734 gaining his freedom in 1742, he worked from New Broad Street Buildings, was appointed Warden in 1762 then served as Master in 1765, he died in 1785.
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