A small ormolu mounted boulle quarter repeating mantel timepiece, Antoine Saint Martin, Paris, circa 1730

6-inch thirteen-piece enamel cartouche dial signed St. Martin A Paris, the similarly signed movement with anchor escapement, narrow pallets and silk suspension, pull repeating the hours and quarters on three bells, the waisted case veneered with brown turtleshell inlaid with brass and outlined with richly gilded leaf and shell mounts, a putto on the cresting and an eagle defeating a serpent on the lower edge of the door