English mahogany bracket clock, ca 1750. An 8-day movement bracket clock with brass and silvered dial signed Robert Higgs, London on the silvered dial / and again on the bright cut engraved brass back plate. In a mahogany case with four pine cone shaped ormolu mounts on the dome caddy top and figural herms on the front with a fifth finial on the top, brass carrying handles on the sides striking a bell once on the half hour and full bells on the hour, ticks and strikes; over the dial is an amusing painted figure of a man’s arm in movement with the ticking. With calendar aperture. With winding key.

Robert Higgs was apprenticed to Richard Blundell in 1714. He was admitted as a Member of the Clockmakers’ Company and worked at Sweetings Alley, London, apparently from 1743 until 1769, where he established a substantial trade in elaborate and well-made musical and other complex clocks, many for the Spanish market. His son Peter was apprenticed to him in 1740 and was Master of the Clockmaker’s Company by 1767.

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