Richard Fennell, Kensington The silk-backed repousse basket with adorned dolphin handles on foliate bud pommels, flanked by urn finials, over an elaborately moulded cornice, glazed rectangular side panels and a moulded base on later block feet, the 7 inch square gilt brass dial with winged cherubs head spandrels framing the Roman and Arabic chapter ring with half-quarter marks and fleur de lyse half hour markers framing a finely matted centre with shaped chamfered mock pendulum aperture, ringed winding squares and a decorated date aperture, the twin gut fusee movement with six finely knopped and finned pillars, with knife-edge verge escapement, the strike and quarter repeat system using two internally mounted racks to sound the hours and quarters on demand on one large and one small bell, each hammer with a fettled steel spring, the backplate signed in a circular wheat ear cartouche within a symmetrical pattern of foliate scrolls united by strapwork within a wheatear border. Ticking, striking and repeating. With brass bob pendulum and case key. 41cms (16ins) high