A Louis XIV tortoiseshell boulle striking bracket clock, the case with out-set angles on toupie feet, the female caryatids supporting flambeau urn finials to the ogee top with four further finials, the foliate cast dial with individual Roman enamel chapters and outer minute ring, well shaped pierced blued hands, cast ormolu figures below emblamatic of the sciences, the twin going barrel movement with five vase-shaped pillars and verge escapement, strike on bell via numbered countwheel on the backplate signed Nicolas Fortin AParis