A George III brass mounted mahogany table clock

A George III brass mounted mahogany table clock Thomas Lozano, London, circa 1780 The five pillar twin fusee movement with verge escapement regulated by short bob pendulum and striking the hour on a bell, with rococo scroll engraved backplate and 7 inch brass break-arch dial plate applied with circular white painted centre signed THO?s LOZANO, EN LONDRES within Roman numeral chapter ring and Arabic five minutes to outer track, with pierced brass hands, and rococo scroll cast spandrels to angles beneath subsidiary calendar dial flanked by conforming mounts to arch, the brass mounted bell top case with hinged brass carrying handle to the brass scroll pierced fretwork border decorated upstand over pinecone finials and cavetto top mouldings, the front door with inset brass fillet moulding to the glazed dial aperture, foliate and scroll cast upper quadrant frets flanked by canted angles adorned with fine female caryatid and pendant floral cast mounts, the sides with circular martial trophy cast brass frets over further concave topped rectangular sunburst cherub mask centred rococo scroll cast frets, the rear with rectangular break-arch glazed door set within the frame of the case, the cavetto moulded shallow skirt base with generous leafy scroll cast feet, 49cm (19.25ins) high excluding handle. Tomas Lozano was Spanish by birth and is known to have worked in both London and Spain. Whilst working in London it seems that he primarily produced timepieces for export to his native Spain; he is also known to have successfully repaired damaged marine chronometers for the Spanish Navy in 1786.