A rare late George III period ebonised automaton table clock.  The 8-day brass dial movement has hour strike on a bell, an inset subsidiary date disc above VI within the dial centre and a painted river landscape in the arch with two tennis players batting a ball backwards and forwards.

Date:  circa 1770 – 1780

Height:  21 in (53.5 cm)

Width: 12 ½ in (32 cm)

Depth: 7 ½ in (19 cm)

* John Williams is listed on page 842 of Brian Loomes’ ‘Clockmakers of the World: 21^st Century Edition’ as working in Shoreditch, London in the last part of the 18^th century.

 This is only the second automaton table clock we have had with tennis players in over 35 years of buying and selling clocks.

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