Repeating bracket clock in boulle case mounted in ormolu by Baltazar Martinot, Paris. c. 1710

The Boulle case of rectangular form with arched glazed hinged front with shaped bottom edge and applied ormolu mountings on the face of the glass including a circular frame for the dial; below this is a canopy supporting two swags and, below again, a cast and chased apron surmounted by a pair of billing doves.

The case is surmounted by a domed top of square plan, flanked by four urn finials with a figure of a cock in the centre in lacquered gilded brass, the surface chased to represent feathers. The dial is 12.00 diameter with outer narrow ring of minute numbers, and for the hours, a set of 12 inset slightly domed enamel plaques, each with a Roman numeral in deep blue on a white ground. The brass movement plates are 10 cm deep and 10 cms wide. The back plates is signed 'Baltazar Martinot AParis'.

The movement consists of a going train with going barrel, verge escapement and pendulum of total length 20 cms suspended from a loop of cord; steel rod, brass-coated lens-shaped bob 2.9 cm diameter, maximum thickness 1.0 cm, resting on a rating nut.