Drum clock with alarm engraved with scenes representing the months. Made in France, 1560-80, movement by Félix Loubet

Gilded brass case, engraved with scenes representing the Four Seasons adapted from prints of the months of March, May, July and September published in 1568 by Etienne Delaune (1518-83); iron hand replaced.

The cylindrical case has a circular dial with a steel hand. The side is pierced with a rosette to emit the sound of the alarm struck on the bell, and is engraved with figure-subjects in four oval panels:- Spring (three young women seated in a garden, one weaving a garland, another playing a lute); Summer (two men mowing, bathers in a river in the background); Autumn (ploughing and sewing); Winter (pruning trees and gathering faggots).

The removable base cover is also engraved on the outside with strapwork and foliage and on the inside with an illustration of a 6-arched bridge above which is the signature 'Felix Loubet au S.Esprit' The going train with fusee and gut land, verge escapement, plain iron balance wheel of three spokes and later balance cock, spring and regulator of Tompion type, with regulator dial numbers 1 to VI in Roman.