A LOUIS XV "RELIGIEUSE" in tortoiseshell, the domed bell top with urn finials above a gallery and fluted pilasters with Corinthian capitals and glass panelled arched sides, velvet lined dial and brass chapter ring on a table supported by sphinxes signed Gaudron à Paris, the five pillar movement with verge escapement, silk suspended pendulum and outside countwheel strike, signed again on the backplate Gaudron à Paris