A GEORGE III GREEN JAPANNED TABLE TIMEPIECETHE DIAL INSCRIBED FOR TIMOTHY PROSSER, MONMOUTH, LATE 18th CENTURYThe four finned pillar single fusee movement with verge escapement incorporating sprung 'silent' pallets regulated by short bob pendulum, the backplate engraved with generous asymmetric foliate scrolls around a basket of fruit within a repeating leaf border, the 7 inch white painted Roman numeral break-arch dial with false bob aperture to centre and with scroll pierced steel hands beneath arch inscribed Timothy Profser, MONMOUTH, The green japanned case with hinged brass carrying handle to the bell-top superstructure decorated in in raised gilt with pagoda pavilion within a garden landscape to front and with leafy sprays to angles, over double-cavetto top moulding painted with gilt bands with repeating leaf motifs, the opening front with glazed dial aperture within frame decorated with relief-work gilt floral sprays divided by trellis panels and incorporating scroll-cast brass fretwork inserts to upper quadrants, the sides with conforming painted infill around the glazed circular over concave-topped rectangular apertures, the rear also decorated and incorporating a break-arch window to the rectangular door set within the frame of the case, on ogee-shaped skirt base decorated with gilt leafy band to the cavetto top moulding and scrollwork to the cut-out shaped apron flanked by integral bracket feet, with a gilt line painted black japanned wall bracket, of tapered ogee form with projecting lip over gilt-line panels and conforming gilt repeating leaf decorated pendant, (2).The clock 51cm (20ins) high with handle down, 30cm (29.75ins) wide, 18cm (8ins) deep; the clock and the wall bracket 69cm (27.25ins) high overall.A Timothy Prosser is recorded in Loomes, Brian Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World, Volume 2 as working in Monmouth 1830-44. The current timepiece can be dated on stylistic grounds to around 1780 (from details such as the foliate engraved backplate and form of the green japanned case); hence the signature therefore must either relate to an earlier unrecorded maker of that name (perhaps father or uncle) or was added by the later maker prior to selling on.