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• Lot n° 80 A first half of the 18th century brass-mounted ebony two-tune musical table clock with nine bells and 17 hammers. Stephen Asselin, London The inverted bell top case with brass banding, surmounted by a knopped handle over a concave-moulded cornice and pierced brass sound frets backed with old silk to the front, sides and back, resting on a moulded base with applied brass band. The 8 inch brass break arch dial with silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with floating half-hour markers, signed between V and VII, flanked by subsidiary dials for strike/silent and chime/no chime, framed by gilt spandrels. The arch with tune selector offering A Minuet or A Rigadoon, the finely matted centre with (now filled) mock pendulum aperture, and shaped date aperture. The substantial movement with six knopped pillars and secured into the case by a pair of brass brackets. The escapement now converted to anchor, striking the hours on a single bell and playing on a nest of nine bells with seventeen hammers. The backplate engraved with scrolls, acanthus leaves, green men and foliate decoration within a wheatear border. Ticking, striking, repeating Sold with two case keys and a winding key. 53cms high (21ins).