Faience clock and case

This wall clock with its case was produced around 1756–1757 at Paul Hannong's pottery factory in Strasbourg, France. Constructed in tin-glazed earthenware painted in enamels, the case features elaborate Rococo scrollwork with glazed side panels and a shaped, glazed door mounted with cast and chased gilt mounts on the lower half. The case is flanked by male and female demi-figures emerging from scrolls, with a crowing cockerel placed in an opening above the dial. It is surmounted by a separately formed cresting figure representing Father Time holding an hourglass. The total assembly, including bracket, clock case, and cresting, measures 114 cm in height and 47 cm in width, and bears a "PH" factory mark.

The clock dial is cast and chased brass, 21.2 cm in diameter, featuring an outer minute ring numbered 1 to 60, an engraved quarter-hour inner ring, and black Roman hour numerals set on white inset plaques of slightly irregular shape. The centre includes a cartouche bust surrounded by foliage, trophies, and scrolls with a crown at the bottom, alongside pierced steel hands and a single winding hole above VI. The movement possesses plates measuring 14 by 10.8 cm, a going barrel with an estimated 14-day duration, a tic-tac escapement, and a pendulum with a lenticular bob suspended by a cord loop. It also incorporates a pull-repeat mechanism striking on one bell.