A Louis XV gilt-mounted stained horn and mother-of-pearl contra-boulle quarter repeating bracket timepiece, Le Noir, Lyon, circa 1735

5½-inch twenty-five piece enamel cartouch dial signed to the centre Le Noir, A Lyon, the movement with vase pillars, verge escapement, pull quarter repeating on two top-mounted bells, signed on the backplate as the dial, the waisted case with floral surmount, foliate mounts and scroll feet, the whole veneered in brass and inlaid with foliate scrolls and flowers in polychrome stained horn and mother-of-pearl, with a conforming bracket

Clock: 48cm high, 19in.

Bracket: 18.5cm high, 7 ¼ in.