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Stock No: CA743 Georgian Verge Bracket Clock by Richard Laurence of Bath. A well patinated fruitwood case with breakarch locking doors at front and back, the front with gilt spandrels glazed beside the arch. The clock sides have inspection glasses with rounded top lights. The inverted bell top has a patinated brass carrying handle and there are pineapple corner finials. The clock is 18.5” high, 11.5” wide, 7” deep. The silvered breakarch dial has Roman hour and Arabic five minute numerals, the dial centre is extravagantly engraved Richard Laurence – Bath. There are blue steel serpentine hands and there is a strike/silent dial in the arch.The eight day double fusee movement has crown wheel and verge escapement and rack strike with repeat facility. The plates have five turned pillars and the backplate has an intriguing engraving of a lady with an ostentatious hat standing on a stone bridge with surrounding floral and entre–lac decoration*. Richard Laurence was born in Warminster in 1729 & died in 1773. He had a flourishing clock and watch making business in Bath and was also part of the lively social scene of those times. He became a Sheriff in 1770. *There is speculation that the backplate engraving was linked to a scandalous affair. Height 22cms. Width 29cms. Depth 19cms.