A first half of the 18th century ebony table timepiece with interesting provenance James Snelling, London The case surmounted by a knopped and foliate handle over an inverted caddy top and moulded cornice, over arched glass side panels on a raised base, with applied label to the rear door, the 5.75 inch signed arched brass dial with Roman and Arabic chapter ring with matted centre and chamfered apertures for the mock pendulum and the date, with blued steel hands, framed by Indian head spandrels, the single wire fusee movement now with a later anchor escapement, the backplate signed 'J. Snelling, London' within foliate scrollwork set within a wide wheatear border. Sold with a winding key and case key. 43cms (16 1/2ins) high (4) Footnotes: James Snelling was active from 1712-1751. A printed label for Jump & Sons, 93 Mount Street, London, is applied to the inside of the rear door with the handwritten name 'Lord Elphinstone'. This presumably relates to a time when the clock was serviced in the early 20th century. It is not known how long it had been in the Elphinstone family at that time. Sidney Buller-Fullerton-Elphinstone, 16th Lord Elphinstone (1869-1955) was a Scottish nobleman who married Lady Mary Bowes-Lyon on 24 July 1910 in St Margaret's Westminster. She was the daughter of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and the sister of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and godmother to her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com