A GEORGE III SCARLET JAPANNED TAVERN TIMEPIECETHE CASE BEARING A SIGNATURE FOR GEORGE ALLETT, LONDON, LATE 18th CENTURYThe four pillar weight-driven movement with four-wheel train, anchor escapement regulated by seconds pendulum and tapered plates, the 20 inch circular cream painted Roman numeral dial with Arabic five minutes beyond the outer minute track and steel moon hands, with gilt-leaf painted moulded edge and secured to the teardrop-shaped drop-trunk case by four turned pegs, the case with twin side doors set behind the dial over concave topped caddy moulded front door to the trunk polychrome and gilt relief decorated with oriental figures within a garden pagoda landscape, with gilt line borders to surround and panel inscribed George Allett, LONDON between the door and the dial, the curved side panels gilt painted with large foliate trails over ogee moulded base.118cm (46.5ins) high, 58cm (23ins) wide, 20cm (8ins) deep.A closely related tavern timepiece retaining its original black japanned decoration, by Jtin Vulliamy, London, is discsed in detail in Gatto, Martin THE TAVERN CLOCK pages 79-98.