A Louis XV ormolu musical mantel clock, c.1750

The circular white-enamel dial signed Charles Du Tertre with blue Roman and black Arabic chapters, elaborate pierced ormolu hands, the movement with circular brass plates with back-pinned baluster pillars, verge escapement with silk-suspended pendulum, calibrated countwheel strike on a bell on the backplate signed Charles du Tertre a Paris, with trip linkeage (detached) to the musical movement in the base having fusee and barrel (line broken) and playing music on nine bells via 18 hammers and long pin barrel, within a shaped case cast with pierced scrolls, the rear left foot with stamped ST GERMAIN, on a later shaped carved japanned base with pierced corner mounts cast with shells and scrolling feet, lacking gilding