A George III brass mounted quarter chiming table clock, Daniel De St. Leu, London circa 1765. The

A George III brass mounted quarter chiming table clock, Daniel De St. Leu, London circa 1765. The six pillar triple fusee movement with verge escapement, chiming the quarters on a nest of eight graduated bells and striking the hour on a further bell, the backplate signed Dan:l De St. Leu, Watchmaker to her Majesty, London beneath an engraved basket of flowers within fine profuse foliate engraved infill, the 8 inch brass break-arch dial with calendar aperture and arched recessed silvered plaque with repeat signature to the matted centre within an applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with stylised fleur-de-lys half hour markers and Arabic five minutes, the angles with foliate scroll cast spandrels beneath star-centred subsidiary Strike/Silent dial flanked by conforming mounts to arch, with a distressed bell-top case with unusual martial trophy cast mounts to the front canted angles and with brass handles above foliate scroll cast pierced arched sound frets to sides, on moulded base with scroll cast brass feet (case distressed incomplete and with other faults), 53cm (21ins) high. Daniel De St. Leu is recorded in Baillie G.H. Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World as working in London 1753-97. He was appointed Watchmaker to the Queen in 1765 and made many clocks for export including a very fine silver mounted table clock for the Spanish Court.