A fine William IV period ebonised bracket clock with elegant gilt brass inlays and mounts.

The case with a chamfer top is supported by four brass-inlaid ribs. It stands on four gadrooned brass ball feet and has a brass lion’s mask carrying handle to each side with fishscale sound frets.

The enamel dial is signed by the maker – ­PURVIS, North Audley Street, London – and set in an engine turned gilded surround. The blued steel hands are original and have pointed tips.

The high-quality heavy duty 8-day double fusee movement strikes the hours on a bell and has pull repeatwork. The finely engraved back plate is also signed by the maker Purvis, Nth Audley Street, Grosvenor Square.

Date: 1830-1840

Height: 15 in (38 cm)

Width: 9 ½ in (24 cm)

Depth: 7 in (19 cm)

*Alexander Purvis was working in North Audley St, Grosvenor Square between 1810 and 1845 and is recorded on page 632 of Brian Loomes’s Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World: Complete 21^st Century edition.

His clocks were always of the finest quality for the period.

HW5064