The George III automatom-clock is conceived in the French picturesque manner and its medallioned clock face is rayed with jewels. Its drum, festooned with fruit and flowers emblematical of Peace and Plenty, is incorporated in a pedestal that is surmounted by a Chinese bell-ringer summoning attention from beneath an exotic ogival-domed and Turkish-finialed umbrella. The clock's veil-draped and acanthus-enriched pedestal is born by a stag standing in a fertile landscape amongst palmtrees and bull rushes. The stag is symbolic of the triumph both of Chronos or 'Father Time' as well as of the Moon Goddess and huntress Diana, and is also emblematical of the Sense of Hearing. Its garlanded and oak-festooned pedestal is supported on Roman acanthus-scrolled feet. Appropriate to its role as a musical box, its displays a theatric tablet with a rural vignette of a farmer surrounded by animals.