A fine George III brass mounted mahogany quarter-striking table clock, John Taylor, London, circa 1780 The six pillar triple fusee movement with verge escapement regulated by short bob pendulum and striking the hour on a bell and the quarters on a second smaller bell, the rococo scroll engraved backplate centred with a globe set on a pedestal over a leafy rosette and with continuous foliate trail border, the 8 inch brass break-arch dial plate applied with circular silvered Roman numeral centre signed John Taylor, London within concentric calendar to inner ring and Arabic five minutes to outer, with pierced blued steel hands, brass calendar pointer and rococo scroll cast spandrels to angles beneath subsidiary STRIKE/SILENT selection dial flanked by conforming mounts to arch, the brass mounted bell top case capped with urn finial to the brass scroll fretwork decorated upstand over bead cast brass band applied superstructure flanked by four further gilt finials, the front door with inset gilt brass moulding to the glazed dial aperture, foliate and scroll cast upper quadrant frets flanked by canted angles adorned with fine female caryatid and tied rose drapery cast mounts, the sides with hinged handles over break-arch sunburst cherub mask and rococo scroll cast sound frets, the rear with rectangular glazed door set within the frame of the case, the cavetto moulded shallow skirt base applied with foliate trail mount to front, on generous leafy scroll cast feet, 61cm (24ins) high overall. Several makers with the name John Taylor are recorded working in London during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, however the most likely maker of the current lot is recorded in Baillie, G.H. Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World as being admitted to the Clockmaker’s Company in 1796 and may be the same maker who is subsequently listed as working from Clerkenwell 1805-24.