This wall clock is designed in the Louis XVI gout grec manner and is incorporated in an urn-capped and pelta-shaped pilaster which has Grecian ribbon-frets rising from thyrsus-capped Doric pilasters that are hung with bacchic ram-heads. Its shaft is embellished with a trellised-fret 'sound-board' tablet above a dentilled and thyrsus-finialed bracket. It derives from a pair of clock-patterns prepared around 1770 for engraving by the French architect Jean-Charles Delafosse (see: H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, p. 182)