Arts And Crafts Dinner Chime

Dinner chime in the "Arts and Crafts" spirit made by W F Needham and Plant & Perry in Birmingham (United Kingdom) at the end of the 19th century.
Metallophone composed of six bars and their bronze resonators, each producing a different note, the whole is suspended on a black lacquered wooden frame with a baluster base and decoration of Far Eastern inspiration.
A note on its staff engraved on each bar. Engraved on the resonators: PLANT & PERRY / PATENT No. 5320 and SOLE LICENSEE / WF NEEDHAM

William Frederick NEEDHAM's workshops were located at 69 Camden St., Branston St. works, Great Hampton St., New Hall Birmingham. R. PLANT and E. PERRY patented their bronze resonator under N ° 5320 on March 22, 1884 in the United Kingdom and in 1888 in the United Kingdom for an instrument then called "harmonicon".
Ref. Grainger Museum Collection, Melbourne, Australia, Inv. 00.0184