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A Queen Anne ebony table clock, George Etherington, London, circa 1710 The six finned pillar twin fusee bell striking movement with pivoted rise/fall rate adjustment beam to the pendulum suspension and backplate engraved with grotesque ‘Green Man’ mask, baskets of fruit and Ho-Ho bird inhabited symmetrical foliate strapwork around a central herringbone and husk swag bordered reserve signed Geo Etherington, LONDON, the 7.75 by 7 inch rectangular gilt brass dial with herringbone-edged shaped false bob and calendar apertures to the matted centre within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with fleur-de-lys half hour markers and Arabic five minutes to outer track, with pierced steel hands and gilt winged cherub mask cast spandrels to lower angles, the upper margin with scroll engraved spandrel infill interrupted by subsidiary vestigial alarm setting and regulation dials, each with complex rosette centres, flanking repeat signature Geo Etherington, LONDON, with S/N strike selection switch to upper margin, the ebony and ebonised case with hinged brass carrying handle and brass ball-and-spire finials to the domed caddy superstructure over front door and the sides with small horizontal rectangular scroll-pierced frets over larger conforming panels, the rear with rectangular glazed door set within the frame of the case, on cavetto moulded skirt base fitted with brass domed feet, (movement with losses, case with significant replacements to veneers and mouldings and other faults), 39.5cm (15.5ins) high excluding handle. George Etherington is recorded in Loomes, Brian Clockmakers of Britain 1286-1700 as being made a Free Brother of the Clockmakers' Company in 1684 having previously being apprenticed to Robert Rooksby possibly in Newcastle-on-Tyne or York. In 1689 he moved from the 'Dial in Fleet Street' to 'against the New Church in the Strand', London. In 1697 he signed the Oath of Allegiance and became an Assistant of the Clockmakers' Company in 1701, Warden in 1706 and finally Master in 1709. He attended until at least 1720 and is thought to have died in 1729.

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