A George III gilt-metal mounted and marble mantel clock circa 1775 after a design by Matthew Boulton

the ormolu mounted urn fitted with a removable lid surmounted by a flame-form finial, the guilloche cast collar flanked by bearded masks and hung with husk swags, the front and back mounted with fluted roundels raised on a stepped plinth, the pedestal fitted with a clock with a white enamel face and Roman numerals, the corners mounted with ormolu rams heads and hung with husk swags, the leaf-cast ormolu base on a marble plinth

The clock is similar to a design by Matthew Boulton as illustrated in Nicholas Goodison’s Matthew Boulton: Ormolu, Christie’s Books Limited, London 2002, p.235, figures 186-188