A fine French gilt brass carriage bow-sided clock with multi-coloured relief cast foliate decorated dial and push-button repeat Unsigned, late 19th century The eight-day two train gong striking movement with silvered platform lever escapement and stamped with serial number 1879 to lower left corner of the backplate, the frontplate further stamped with 79 over S to lower left and again with two indistinct characters to centre, the dial with silvered Roman numeral chapter ring inset into a rectangular panel sculpted in relief with bird and butterfly inhabited floral trails picked-out in gilt and silver on a grey patinated ground, with blued steel hands and conforming decoration to centre, the bevel-glazed case a bow-sided variation of the anglaise riche design with spiral fluted baton to the hinged carrying handle over thick D-ended top glass, complex moulded cornice and fluted frieze, the angles with twist fluted three-quarter columns incorporating copper finished Corinthian capitals and the sides with generous bowed glasses, on cavetto moulded shaped skirt base incorporating shallow block feet, 17.5cm (7ins) high excluding handle. Provenance: The beneficiary of the Estate of a private collector, East Midlands. The highly decorative dial mask of the current lot employs a series of differing techniques to gild, silver and chemically patinate the finely finished relief cast and engraved infill to provide depth and contrast. The bow-sided design of the case is particularly attractive and scarce variant of the anglaise riche design which can directly compared to a porcelain panel inset example by Drocourt illustrated in Roberts, Derek CARRIAGE and other Travelling CLOCKS on page 96 (Fig. 6.26