An Empire maplewood, ebony and bronze regulateur de table, the ebony line inlaid plinth-form case flanked by bronze female Egyptian caryatids, glazed sides, the detachable top revealing handles for the sliding front and rear glasses, the eccentric silvered Roman dial with blued moon hands, concentric seconds ring with counterpoised blued steel hand, the gilt centre with visible coup perdu escapement, the substantial movement with large conical-form pillars and inverted barrels, countwheel strike on bell on plain backplate, steel-suspended gilt gridiron pendulum with pin-wheel adjustment glazed thermometer to bob and silvered beat scale