A mid-18th Century Ebonised and Gilt Metal Mounted Caddy Top Bracket Clock, Ellicott of London, t

A mid-18th Century Ebonised and Gilt Metal Mounted Caddy Top Bracket Clock, Ellicott of London, the caddy top case with a lacquered brass and leaf capped carry handle to a moulded cornice and glazed side panels to a hinged door with pierced gilt metal corner mounts, enclosing a circular brass dial surround to a plinth base and raised on four cast and applied foliate bracket feet, to a 7” square silvered dial with strike silent lever at 1, and signature to the bottom with Roman and Arabic chapter ring and pierced and blued steel hands, the twin chain fusee movement converted from verge to anchor escapement with signed and engraved backplate and united by five knopped pillars, with pull repeat and strike on a bell, height 18” (ILLUSTRATED INSIDE BACK COVER)