A GEORGE III BLUE JAPANNED EIGHT-DAY LONGCASE CLOCK William Hawkins, Bury St. Edmunds, circa 1770 The five pillar rack and bell striking movement with anchor escapement regulated by seconds pendulum, the 12 inch brass break-arch dial with subsidiary seconds ring, calendar aperture and shaped silvered signature plate engraved W'm Hawkins, St., Edmunds Bury to the finely matted centre within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with Arabic five minute to outer track, with scroll pierced blued steel hands and mask and scroll cast spandrels to angles beneath arch centred with silvered STRIKE/SILENT selection ring flanked by dolphin cast mounts, in a case with pagoda pediment over cavetto cornice and three-quarter columns applied to the hinged glazed dial aperture, the sides with rectangular glazed windows and quarter columns applied against bargeboards to the rear, the trunk with concave throat moulding over break-arch door applied with half-round edge mouldings, on plinth base with cavetto top moulding and moulded skirt, the whole now re-decorated in polychrome and gilt with raised-work Chinoiserie scene to door within trellis borders and other foliate designs on to a deep blue ground throughout. 209cm (89.5ins) high, 51cm (20ins) wide, 25.5cm (10ins) deep. A William Hawkins is recorded in Britten, F.J. Old Clocks and Watches & their Makers as working in Bury St. Edmunds from circa 1735.