A fine early 19th century English rosewood mantel timepiece, Vulliamy, London, number 856, the chamfered top over a brass-banded cornice to long arched glazed side windows on a moulded plinth and squat brass bun feet, the signed 6 inch silvered Roman dial with typical blued steel hands and a minute band, with latched dial feet to the tall rectangular movement with substantial plates united by six turned pillars, with Vulliamy type deadbeat escapement with rise and fall regulation to the pendulum with lozenge-section wooden rod. Height 40 cm