A FINE REGENCY BRASS MOUNTED EBONISED QUARTER-CHIMING BRACKET CLOCK WITH INTEGRAL WALL BRACKETJOHN THWAITES AND COMPANY, CIRCA 1813The substantial six pillar triple chain fusee movement chiming the quarters on a graduated nest of eight bells and sounding the hour on a further larger bell, with anchor escapement regulated by lenticular bob pendulum swinging within the wall bracket beneath and scroll border engraved backplate boldly signed John Thwaites & Co., Clerkenwell, London to centre, the frontplate stamped with serial number 5097 to lower right hand corner, the 8 inch slightly convex cream painted Roman numeral dial signed John Thwaites & Co. Clerkenwell, LONDON to centre, with minute track to outer margin and pierced steel hands, the ebonised break-arch case with hinged carrying handle to the brass fillet edged single pad top over slender complex cornice moulding and opening front incorporating crescent-shaped scroll pieced brass fret above convex glazed cast circular bezel to the dial aperture and conforming lower quadrant frets with raised half-round moulded surrounds, the sides with arched brass fish scale frets, the rear with arch glazed panel door set within the frame of the case, on cavetto moulded skirt base resting on original wall bracket with complex moulded border to the table over brass bound frieze incorporating a lock to secure the removable inverted concave section beneath terminating with an ogee moulded foot.The clock 40.5cm (16ins) high with handle down; the clock and wall bracket together 64cm (25.25ins) high, 30.5cm (12ins) wide, 20.5cm (8ins) deep overall.John Thwaites was the son of Ainsworth Thwaites who was apprenticed in 1735 and worked from Rosoman Row, Clerkenwell, London 1751-80. Ainsworth Thwaites was an accomplished maker who supplied the clock for the tower at the Horse Guards Parade; John was born in 1757 and took over the business presumably on the death of his father in 1780 before moving to Bowling Green Lane. He entered into partnership with Jeremiah Reed in 1808 and he firm subsequently became well known for supplying all forms of clocks and movements either wholesale for others to retail or signed by themselves. The partnership continued under John Thwaite's leadership from several addresses in London until his death in 1842. The business has subsequently passed through a series of successors and is still trading today from Rottingdean near Brighton.Ronald E. Rose in his book English DIAL CLOCKS provides data allowing clocks by Thwaites to be dated from their serial number (Appendix III page 239); from this list the serial number of the current lot suggests that it was made around 1813. A very closely related example, albeit a timepiece only, signed for Thwaites and Reed, and with provenance indicating that it was supplied to the 'H.M. Government Committee of Transports Navy Office' Whitehall, was sold in these rooms on 20th September 2016 for (lot 80) for £5,000 hammer.