Charles Coulon is recorded in London from 1743-1768. Designed in the 'French' picturesque style of the George III period, this acanthus-scrolled case with flower festoons, gothic-fret embossements and serpentined pediment surmounted by a Roman eagle, relates to patters for 'Wall Clocks' published in Lock and Copland's A New Book of Ornaments, 1752, pl. 12; and corresponds, in reverse, to that of a clock by James Scholefield, illustrated in R. Edwards, Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, Andover, 1977, p.235.

Closely related clocks were sold by Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Slazenger, Powerscourt, Co. Wicklow, Ireland, Christie's house sale, 24-25 September 1984, lot 415 and by anonymous sale, Christie's London, 25 June 1987, lot 16