AN ORMOLU TABLE CLOCK FOR THE CHINESE MARKET, ENGLAND, 18TH/19TH CENTURY Height:  This form of case is known as the `scroll angle` design and was most used by Henry Borrell and John Mottram although other unsigned and Chinese examples are known. A clock by Borrell of very similar design and with the same bird mounts as this example is in the Palace Museum, Beijing and is illustrated and discussed along with others in Ian White, English Clocks for the Eastern Markets, pg. 230 Fig.8.19.  From the mid-eighteenth century onwards, the West increasingly focused their attention on objects that could be exported to help balance an increasing trade gap between East and West.  This was further fuelled by the massive demand in the West for exotic Asian wares such as textiles, porcelain, lacquer and of course tea.