A fine mid-eighteenth century bracket clock. The top quality inverted bell-top ebonised case with pierced sound frets to the back and front and glazed to the sides. The brass dial with silvered chapter ring, signed Ellicott, London within a cartouche, with Roman numerals and outside Arabic minutes and matted centre with mock pendulum aperture and calendar dial in the arch, mounted with pierced gilt-metal spandrels and with pierced blued steel hands. The two-train fusee movement with verge escapement and bob pendulum sounding the hours on a bell with pull quarter repeat with six hammers on six further bells. The back plate with leaf and floral engraving.

John Ellicott, an eminent maker, is recorded at 17 Sweeting’s Alley, Cornhill; he was born in 1706 and died in 1772.

This is a fine and well preserved example of John Ellicott’s work in excellent order.

Case height (excluding handle) 16 ½ inches (42 cms).

£13,000