A George III mahogany-cased bracket clock with automaton

A George III mahogany-cased bracket clock with automaton. Robert Beels, Kings Lynn, circa 1780. Having a 7" break-arched painted Roman dial inscribed "Rob't Beels KINGS LYNN", the spandrels painted with domestic and wild animals, the arch with a rural landscape depicting a woodcutter, with articulated arm, before a village with articulated windmill sails, the wire-driven twin-fusee movement with foliage-engraved backplate, the anchor escapement and pendulum driving the woodcutter's arm, the windmills sails on a silk thread pulley, the bell with rebated edge for silent option, the caddy-top case with brass carrying handle over moulded door and conforming glazed sides, the latter with circular sound frets, raised on brass ogee bracket feet, 18.5", (47cm) high excluding handle.