A fine and very rare mid 18th century grande sonnerie striking ebony table clock with alarm and trip repeatConyers Dunlop, LondonThe stepped caddy top framed by four facetted finials over a deep cornice set with brass panels over freestanding reeded Doric columns, side handles and pierced wooden sound frets backed in green silk, on a stepped brass-bound plinth on brass block feet. The 7.5inch arched brass dial signed on a silvered plaque flanked by subsidiaries for rise-and-fall regulation and Strike/Silent over a silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with floating fleur de lys half-hour markers, the very finely matted centre with large mock pendulum aperture, chamfered date aperture and alarm-setting disc (the alarm wound via a small arbor between XII and I). The substantial movement with triple gut fusees to a pivotted verge escapement, striking the hours on a large bell and each quarter on a run of six bells, the alarm sounded on the larger bell via a double-headed hammer, the engraved backplate centred by the standing figure of Diana the Huntress, bare-breasted holding a spear, bow, and arrows over a female mask, with original pendulum sprung holdfast. Together with a bespoke wall bracket. Ticking, striking and trip repeating. 56cms (22ins) high