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- Baluster ring turned support
- Baluster turned supports & shaped platform base
- Brass key escutcheon
- Candy twist
- Circular fan inlay
- Cockbeading (the way the drawer is framed)
- Cross banding
- Decorative frieze with roundels
- Turned spindles
- Turned bun handles with decorative boss
- Tripod shaped legs
- Swan neck pediment (top of clock)
- Square tapering reeded leg
- Square tapering legs
- Smokers bow
- Short stiles
- Shield shaped back vacant cartouche
- Shaped stretchers & undertier
- Shaped plinth base
- Shaped bracket foot
- Shaped apron & splayed feet
- Scrolled feet
- Saddle seated
- Sabot
- Plinth base & turned handles
- Out-swept turned supports
- Ormalu mounts
- Mirrored up-stand
- Marquetry (central decoration) & Stringing (border)
- Hooped back (also pierced decoration – hole right through)
- Flame mahogany
- Fan motif
- Faceted column
- Dentil cornice