A good late 18th century mahogany table clock of excellent colour, with moonphase and alarm. Together with a matching wall bracket.
Signed Yeldrae Notron, for Eardley Norton, London, number 2400
The bell topped case surmounted by a handle and four berried finials over a moulded cornice, fish scale side frets (backed with red velvet), and canted corners to a moulded base on brass ogee bracket feet. The 6.75 inch brass dial with painted rolling moonphase in the arch waxing and waning over a pair of brass hemispheres engraved with signs of the Zodiac, the moon's age engraved to the outer edge of the silvered arc, over a silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring framed by floral and C-scroll spandrels, with Strike/Not strike lever at III, the matted centre with recessed shaped signature plaque, blued steel hands and an Arabic alarm-setting disc. The twin gut (now wire) fusee movement with five knopped pillars, the going train terminating in a knife-edge verge escapement, the rack striking system sounding the hours and with trip repeat on the bell, the alarm train independently wound via a cord to the rear and acting on the same bell with a double ended hammer, the backplate depicting a basket of fruit within symmetrical foliate scrolls. Numbered 2400 to the top right hand corner and along the rear edge. With a case key and associated winding key. Running, striking and repeating, alarm functioning. The clock 48cms (19ins) high. Full height including bracket 63cms (24.75ins). (2)
Footnotes:
Eardley Norton was working from 49 St. John Street, Clerkenwell, London from the mid 18th Century and was free of the Clockmakers Company from 1770-1794. He was a maker of great repute for watches and complex clocks and in 1771 he patented a striking mechanism.