WILLIAM TAYLOR, DUMFRIES. A GEORGE III SCOTTISH MAHOGANY VERGE BRACKET CLOCK the case having an inverted bell-top pediment with hinged brass handle and pierced bone gallery above a cross banded glazed door with pierced sound frets enclosing a 7" arched brass dial with gilt rococo spandrels and silvered chapter ring surrounding a matted centre with calendar aperture; the scroll engraved arch with silvered name plaque between two subsidiary dials for regulation and Strike/Silent fronting an eight-day double fusee movement with rise and fall verge escapement and scroll engraved backplate striking and repeating the hours on a bell.

47cm high handle down