A George III Scottish oak longcase clock with eight day movement striking on a bell, the 12-inch brass break arch dial with silvered chapter ring framing a matt centre with subsidiary seconds and date aperture, the silvered boss to arch inscribed 'James Ivory Dundee', the arched hood with turned columns and glazed door, the trunk with arched door on a plain base, height 212cm, with pendulum and two weights (alterations and faults). Note: James Ivory of Dundee is a recorded clockmaker, born in Liberton near Edinburgh in 1729. He moved to London, where he married, in 1761 and then to Dundee in 1762, where he worked until his death in 1793.