A GEORGE III FRUITWOOD VENEERED TABLE TIMEPIECE DAVID LOCKWOOD, SWAFFAM, CIRCA 1760The four pillar single fusee movement with verge escapement regulated by bob pendulum and incomplete pull-quarter repeat mechanism previously sounding the hours and quarters on a graduated nest of three bells now adapted to serve as passing strike on a single bell set above the plates, the 6.25 inch brass break-arch dial with matted centre within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring incorporating Arabic five minutes beyond the minute track, with pierced steel hands and unusual cast basket of fruit decorated scroll spandrels to angles, beneath arch centred with a silvered signature boss engraved David, Lockwood, Swaffham flanked by conforming grotesque mask and scroll cast spandrels, the fruitwood veneered inverted bell-top case with hinged cast brass carrying handle over double cavetto top mouldings and glazed dial aperture beneath brass fish-scale upper quadrant frets to the front door, the sides with shaped scroll-pierced upper frets over break-arch windows, the rear with break-arch glazed rectangular door incorporating further scroll-pierced frets to quadrants, on cavetto moulded skirt with brass claw-and-ball feet, (formerly ebonised, repeat work incomplete).44cm (17.2ins) high with handle down, 26cm (10.25ins) wide, 18.5cm (7.25ins) deep.David Lockwood is recorded in Baillie, G.H. Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World as working in Swaffham circa 1752.