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An unusual George III ebonised and enamel miniature musical bracket clock
George Margetts, London. Circa 1790
The case with brass handle to the breakarch top, pierced brass fishscale frets to the sides, the moulded base on bracket feet, the dial overlaid with silver panels decorated with polychrome sprays of flowers on a blue guilloché ground, white enamel Roman and Arabic chapter disc with pierced and engraved brass hands, subsidiary enamel discs in the arch for chime/silent and musical tune selection for MINUET/GAVOT/MARCH/DANCE, the small triple chain fusee movement with five pillars and original knife-edge verge escapement, the music playing every three hours on eight bells via eight hammers with the hours struck on the largest of the nest of bells, the backplate finely engraved with the signature Geo Margetts London within a foliate cartouche, the border engraved with a symmetrical pattern and foliate spandrels, pendulum holdfast
9½ in. (24 cm.) high