A Chinese gilt bronze musical table clock, the white enamel dial with Roman numerals, surrounded by ornate foliage scrolls, the corners decorated with lines of alternating red and yellow calibré-cut paste, the clock surmounted by a double gourd, similarly decorated with a red and yellow paste outline and with Daji (great good fortune) in red paste above a radiating rotating spiral with a bezel set with two rows of graduated red and white eight cut paste, all topped by a paste set pineapple finial, surrounded by four revolving paste set flowers issuing green painted foliage, the clock standing on a rectangular plinth with further revolving paste set flowers at each corner, the front and the sides with cut-out scenes revealing cranes in a lotus pond with watery automaton glass rods, all on foliate scroll and paw feet, mechanism with maker's signature , 96cm high