A GEORGE III BRASS-MOUNTED PADOUK WOOD STRIKING BRACKET CLOCK BY NICHOLAS PREVOST, LONDON, THE CASE ATTRIBUTED TO FREDERICK HINTZ, CIRCA 1735

When previously sold at auction, this clock was accompanied by a brass-mounted padouk wall bracket (now lacking) in the manner of the émigré German cabinetmaker and luthier Frederick Hintz (d.1772), who would have been likely to produce the case as well. Based in Leicester Fields, Hintz was a member of the Moravian Brotherhood, like his celebrated colleague and compatriot Abraham Roentgen, who worked in London between 1731 and 1737. Brass inlaid furniture was fashionable during the 1730s, popularized notably by the work of John Channon, and Hintz is known to have created work in this style as well, for example a tea table with brass and mother-of-pearl inlay now in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (W.3-1965).