A LOUIS XV ORMOLU CARTEL CLOCK, the circular glazed enamelled dial with Roman and Arabic chapters signed J. P. COURTOIS A PARIS, the movement signed J.pte. Courtois AParis no. 68, within a scrollwork case crowned by a scrolling pierced cartouche above a seated chinaman holding a palm-tree branch and flanked by acanthus leaves and branches of flowers, the base decorated with two parrots above an interlaced leaf-finial