A fine ormolu musical mantel clock, Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre, the case attributed to Robert Osmond, Paris

5¾-inch enamel dial signed J B Du Tertre A Paris, finely pierced and engraved gilt hands, similarly signed bell striking movement with numbered outside count wheel and tic tac escapement with silk suspension, the boldly cast urn case with pineapple finial above scroll handles and laurel swags, flanked by a pair of sculptor putto seated on the rectangular base with trellis panels, on bun feet and containing  the fusee musical movement, triggered at each hour by the clock and playing one of ten airs on a carillon of eleven bells with nineteen hammers, set on a further gilt-mounted grey marble plinth with bun feet

An almost identical clock with marble plinth is illustrated Tardy La Pendule Francaise,  English version, Part II, page 40. An urn clock case by Osmond is illustrated Les Ouvriers Du Temps, page 255.

Dial and hands in good condition. Movement is clean and complete and looks as though it would run. Musical movement is clean and running at time of cataloguing. Case retains much original gilding with a few scuffs and rubbed areas, marble plinth with old repair to one corner. With pendulum and case key but no winders.
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Jean-Baptiste DuTertre was born in 1715. He suceeded his father and became a Master Clockmaker in 1735. Dutertre is is particularly known for the quality of the cases he used for his clocks. He died in 1772.  Robert Osmond (1711-1789) worked in Paris as a maker of fine ormolu clock cases and whilst this case is apparently unsigned, the vase is very similar to signed examples using lion mask handles and is almost certainly a product of his workshops.  Osmond is known to have supplied cases to DuTertre.