A William and Mary Marquetry and Fruitwood Striking Table Clock with

CASE: overall decorated with running geometric borders and birds amidst stylised foliage, the domed top with S-scroll handle and flambeau vase finials to the angles, the front and sides with frets above, glazed rear door, the moulded plinth raised on pad feet DIAL: 7 inch square dial, the silvered chapter ring with Roman hours and Arabic five minute markers, sword-hilt half-hour markers and cross half quarter-hour markers, signed to the lower edge ‘Jn. Cotsworth / London’, the matted centre with ringed winding holes, mock pendulum aperture and date square, blued steel hands, cherub head spandrels to the angles and strike / silent ‘S / N’ lever above ‘XII’ MOVEMENT: the two-train gut fusee movement with plates joined by five pillars, verge escapement, hour strike to bell and pull quarter repeat on a nest of six bells, the backplate with a sector plate numbered ‘0’ to ‘6’ with a hand to adjust the number of hammers that hit the repeat bells, the profusely engraved backplate with signature reserve ‘Jn. Cotsworth / LONDON’

Estimate:$9,266.92

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