A good George III fruitwood-cased triple fusee chiming bracket clock(Robert?) "Philp [or...

A good George III fruitwood-cased triple fusee chiming bracket clock
(Robert?) "Philp [or Philip], London", circa 1780
The 7.5-inch break-arched dial having a silvered chapter ring with Roman hours, Arabic minutes and cruciform half-hour divisions, engraved "Philp London" framing a matted centre with subsidiary calendar ring, within scroll spandrels, the arch with silvered Strike/Silent ring, the four-pillar wire-driven movement with anchor escapement, chiming on a carillon of eight bells via a pin-barrel and striking on a ninth, the backplate engraved with a basket of fruit and "Philp London" within foliate scrollwork, the case with lacquered foliate-cast carry handle over bell caddy top and moulded cornice , the arch-glazed door with blind fretwork spandrels and bone kite escutcheon between canted corners, on moulded base and flattened bun feet, 19.25", (49cm) high excluding handle.

Literature: Ord-Hume, 'The Musical Clock', Mayfield Books 1995, p. 318, records that Robert Philip (Philp) worked at 6 New Court, St John Street, Clerkenwell between 1777 and 1811, producing musical clocks, watches and astronomical clocks, including one exhibited in the Peiping Museum, China.