A fine French gilt brass carriage clock with painted porcelain panels and push-button repeat Retailed by D.C. Rait and Sons, Paris, circa 1870 The eight-day gong striking movement with silvered platform lever escapement and stamped with serial number 771 to lower left hand corner, the rectangular satin silvered dial with recessed circular Roman numeral centre and blued steel spade hands over retail signature D. C. RAIT & SONS, PARIS to lower margin within a canted silvered surround, the bevel-glazed gilt brass anglaise riche case with hinged reeded baton carrying handle over fluted cornice, Corinthian three-quarter corner columns and side panels finely painted with Renaissance inspired scenes emblematic of summer and winter with a couple dancing within a flowering meadow to the right hand side opposing a female assisting an elderly gentleman within a snowy landscape to the other and each with unusual gilt infill to sky, the rear with lift-out panel incorporating shuttered winding and hand-setting holes, on architectural plinth base with complex upper mouldings and skirt, 18cm (7ins) high excluding handle; with original morocco leather covered protective outer case. Provenance: The beneficiary of the Estate of a private collector, East Midlands. The Scottish firm of retail jewellers D.C. Rait and Sons operated from 34 Buchanan Street Glasgow from the 1820's until well into the twentieth century. In 1869, the firm was listed as 'Goldsmiths to the Queen, Jewellers, Watchmakers and Silversmiths'.