A highly impressive quarter and Dutch striking George III mahogany bracket clock with profusely gilded mounts by Thomas Pace, London.

An extremely impressive mahogany bracket clock, the bell top case with five gilt flambeau finials and carrying handles to the sides, the canted corners of the case having foliate scrolled caryatids to the front and well fretted silk backed sound frets to the sides below the brass carrying handles. There are foliate sound frets to each side of the arched front door. The base of the clock has further gilt mounts and stands on gilt ogee bracket feet.
The painted dial is a fine feature of this clock with the main circular dial flanked by the two subsidiary dials, one for day of the month, the other for strike/silent. In between these two subsidiary dials in the arch is the painted signature plaque signed Thos. Pace, London. The massive triple fusee 8 day movement has an extremely rare feature. As well as carrying a nest of eight bells ringing a peal with eight hammers at each quarter it has a further two bells set above and to the right. At the half hour the preceeding hour is struck on a small bell while at the hour, the number is struck on a deeper toned bell, a feature known as Dutch striking and rare at this period. The backplate is profusely engraved. Thomas Pace was a fine maker and worked at Whitechapel, London between 1784 and 1825. There is a watch made by him in the Guildhall Museum.

Stock Number: 01114/sum08
£15,000

Height: 23 in / 58.42 cm
Width: 14 in / 35.56 cm
Depth: 8.5 in / 21.59 cm