A WILLIAM AND MARY EBONIZED STRIKING BRACKET CLOCK, the case with typical laurel tied gilt metal handle and foliate mounts to the cushion moulded top, later pineapple finials, sound frets, caryatids and foliate feet, the front door with original escutcheon and punch-numbered 196 twice on the sill, the 18 cm x 19.5 cm gilt dial signed Tho: Tompion Londini. Fecit within a foliate engraved oval flanked by subsidiary silvered dials for regulation and strike/silent, silvered chapter ring with later hands, finely matted centre with calendar and mock pendulum apertures, single screwed cherub spandrels, latches to the dial feet and seven ringed pillars of the twin fusee movement (gut lines), re-built verge escapement, lacking four quarter repeat system, hour strike on bell, the backplate profusely engraved with scrolling foliage and strap-work and similarly signed within a D-ended reserve, punch-numbered 196 at the base beneath the scored line border