A George III mahogany and brass-mounted quarter-chiming musical and automaton table clock by Eardley Norton,...

The case with brass handle and pineapple finials to bell top with foliate front mount, all angles chamfered and applied with mounts cast as female busts trailing flowers, silk-backed pierced brass double sound frets to the sides, brass-lined front and rear doors, with brass-bound base raised on bracket feet, the brass dial with foliate scroll spandrels to silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring, matted centre with date aperture and signed on a recessed silvered plaque Eardley Norton/St John's Street/London, flanked by subsidiary rings for chime/not chime and four tune music selection (Ferdinand, A Minuet, Britons Strike Home/Butterd Lease), a painted orchestral scene above showing three musicians moving their arms, blued steel hands, the eight day movement with six pillars, verge escapement, hour strike on bell and music on nine bells with fifteen hammers via 4 in. barrel, playing part tune on the quarters and full tune on the hour, trip repeat, the back plate engraved with foliate scrolls and strapwork; crank key, two case keys