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A George III ebonised and brass-mounted striking and musical automaton table clock
STEPHEN RIMBAULT, LONDON. CIRCA 1765
A George III ebonised and brass-mounted striking and musical automaton table clock Stephen Rimbault, London. Circa 1765 The case with brass handle to brass-bound bell top, pineapple finials to the corners, front and rear doors brass-lined and with engraved brass frets, the sides with brass-lined fret roundels and panels, with caryatid mounts to all chamfered corners, with brass-bound plinth raised on brass bracket feet, the 17.25 cm. (7 in.) wide brass dial with gilt-brass foliate spandrels to silvered chapter ring, matted centre with mock pendulum and date apertures, the former with plate signed Rimbault London , blued steel hands, the chapter ring bisected by subsidiary rings for strike/silent and tune selection (Bath Minuet, My Croaker, Minuet, God Save the King), each with floral painted centres, the arch with painted scene of musicians (four with automaton arms) playing beside a harbour, the eight day movement secured to the case with bolts through the lower pillars, with six pillars, twin gut fusees, reconverted verge escapement, with hour strike on later bell and hourly music on nine bells via fifteen hammers and 7 cm. long pinned cylinder (music work with restorations), now lacking trip repeat, the back plate engraved with foliate scrolls around a cartouche signed Step.n Rimbault/Gt St Andrews Street/Seven Dials/London ; winding key 48 cm. high, handle down