A gilt-mounted black japanned musical automaton table clock for the Turkish market, George Prior, London, circa 1785

7-inch waisted dial with painted flower border, silvered chapter ring with Turkish numerals, matted centre with date aperture and signed on a silvered recessed plaque George Prior, London, subsidiary strike & music/silent and tune selection dials, the arch painted with a harbour scene with automaton ships, the three train fusee and chain movement with six knopped pillars, verge escapement, trip repeat striking the hours on a bell, playing one of four tunes at the hour or at will with thirteen hammers on a nest of nine bells, the backplate engraved with foliate scrolls and signed Geoe Prior, London, the case with cut-glass dome top and flambeau finials above foliate gilt mounts to the flower japanned ground

Dial in good condition with good original hands. Movement is complete, clean and running at time of cataloguing but may benefit from fresh oil, escape wheel probably replaced. Case in generally good clean condition, dome surmount is loosely fitted, one small plaque detached but we have it. With two case keys and a winder.
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