A fine George III brass mounted small ebonised table clock case Anonymous, London, circa 1770 The inverted bell-top superstructure with sculpted hinged brass carrying handle and convex upper moulding over four pineapple finials to superstructure, the front with further brass principal top moulding above door inset with brass fillet mouldings to the glazed dial aperture and upper quadrants with fine foliate scroll pierced and engraved fret infill, the angles with vertical brass stringing and the sides with circular over concave-topped apertures with conforming brass fillet edge mouldings and fine symmetrical scroll-pierced and engraved sound frets, the rear matching the front, on brass cavetto moulded shallow skirt base with generous cast ogee bracket feet, 37.5cm (14.75ins) high excluding handle. The lavish use of brass for the principal mouldings and sound frets on the current lot creates a striking contrast to the ebonised veneers. Cases of this type, albeit often with ogee-arch dial apertures, were favoured by the London partnership of Allam and Clements (see Christies, London Important Clocks and Marine Chronometers 20th February 2008, lot 96 for an example by Allam and Clements which sold for a hammer price of £30,000).