A George III brass mounted mahogany table clock Benjamin Sidey, London, circa 1785 The five pillar twin fusee bell striking movement with chinoiserie backplate engraved with a pagoda framed by a trellis and pair of pilasters issuing stylised palm leaves within a geometric border, the 7 inch brass break-arch dial with calendar and false bob apertures and silvered nameplate signed Benj Sidey, London to the finely matted centre within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with Arabic five minutes to the outer track, with pierced steel hands and rococo scroll cast spandrels to angles beneath arch centred with a subsidiary Strike/Silent dial flanked by conforming mounts, the triple-pad top break-arch case with hinged brass carrying handle to brass fillet-bordered top panel over complex arch mouldings and hinged front door inset with conforming brass fillet surround to the glazed aperture, the sides with arched brass fishscale sound frets and the rear with break-arch glazed door set within the frame of the case, on cavetto moulded skirt base, 38cm (15ins) high excluding handle. Benjamin Sidey Jnr is recorded in Baillie, G.H. Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World as apprenticed (presumably to his father of the same name) in 1731 and gaining his freedom of the Clockmaker's Company in 1738. He subsequently worked from Moorfields, London until 1795.