A late 19th century French architectural repeating carriage clock with painted panels The brass case surmounted by a substantial handle over a bevelled glass inspection panel set into a pagoda top surrounded by knopped columns and pierced fretwork over two painted side panels; the first depicting two women with a fortune teller, the second showing two lovers admiring a pair of love birds, the rectangular gold ground Roman dial with blued-steel hands, surrounded by a pastoral scene of a lutist and two women, the twin barrel movement with silvered lever platform escapement with bi-metallic compensated balance, striking the hours and half hours on a blued-steel coiled gong mounted on a block. Not currently ticking, but striking and repeating. 22cms (8 1/2ins) high (1) Footnotes: This style of brass free-standing column case can be found in Fanelli, J., Terwilliger, Ch. (1987) A Century of Fine Carriage Clocks. Bronxville: Clock Trade Enterprises, p.71. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * * VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com