James Condliff, LiverpoolThe clock was commissioned for Scoresby and so the frame is of a non-standard Condliff pattern - the upper section takes the form of a pair of elaborate scrolled plates united by four knopped pillars, this section is framed by four turned 'bud' type finials atop four Doric columns, united at their bases by a deep plinth raised on ball feet, the plinth has an open centre section which carries the two open-ended spring barrels, each united by a cast brass bracket centred by a fleur-de-lys signed to the front 'Jas. Condliff, Liverpool, the front of the plinth carrying the engraved presentation plaque framed by a pair of pierced and engraved flowerheads:"GULIELMO SCORESBY.VIRO. PHILOSOPHIA. MORIBUS. PIETATE. INSIGNI.TEMPORIS. FUGACIS. AESTIMATORI JUSTO AMICI. LIVERPOOL INCOLENTIS.MCCCCXXXIII"William Scorseby. A man distinguished for his love of learning, character, piety, a valuer of fleeting time, an upright staunch friend. An inhabitant of Liverpool. 1833.on a curved wooden base under a glass dome, the whole design rising conceived to draw the eye upwards to the uppermost bud finial and the 'heartbeat' of the clock, a large polished steel balance wheel with five chamfered spokes and set with five large blued steel timing screws, the helical balance suspended below and acting on an English-pattern lever escapement with jewelled pallets, both trains with six-spoke greatwheels followed by five-spoke wheelwork and chain fusees, (the going with maintaining power, the strike acting on a deep-toned gong concealed in the wooden base), the chains running in parallel to the barrels below with blued steel springs visible through the skeletonised barrel end caps, the 3.25 inch Roman chapter ring with outer minute band and cast bezel, with blued steel moon hands and a counter-poised centre seconds hand, the open centre displaying the rack and snail and intricate wheelwork behind The frame 30cms (12ins) high. To the top of the glass dome 40.5cms (16ins) high.