An extremely pretty and very fine quality French blue celeste jewelled porcelain and ormolu with silver highlights mantel clock. The clock stands on toupee and scroll feet. Set into the base is a fine portrait panel with a woman's face set between two puttae. Full length convex porcelain panels to each side show arcadian scenes within jewelled gilt borders on blue celeste ground. Below the dial a fine shaped porcelain panel shows a courting couple in a rural idyll. The dial is of painted porcelain with birds and butterlies. To the shoulder of the clock are two porcelain urns with ormolu flowers an the clock is surmounted by a fine porcelain urn in two parts. Many of the ormolu mounts and mouldings are picked out in silver, something only ever done on the very finest porcelain clocks. The key wound movement is of 8 day duration and strikes the hours and halves on a bell and is numbered 4425. Riveted to the back of the case is a presentation inscription beautifully engraved indicating to whom this clock was given and dated 1875. A nice touch to be able to give so precise a date and provenance to a clock. 20 inches by 12.5 inches by 5.25 inches ( 50 cms by 31.25 cms by 13 cms).