A French gilt brass carriage clock with figural painted porcelain panels and push-button repeat The movement stamped L.F., Paris, late 19th century The eight-day two train gong striking movement with silvered platform lever escapement and stamped with L.F., PARIS shield trademark over serial number 4437 to the lower left hand corner of the backplate, the rectangular porcelain dial panel incorporating vertical Arabic hour numerals and blued steel spade hands over scene of two female figures in 18th century dress seated on a settee next to a pond with a swan within an Arcadian garden terrace, the Neoclassical case with hinged textured reeded baton handle over thick shaped bevelled top glass and inverted breakfronted cornice incorporating rosette-centred panels above three quarter columns with textured reeded shafts and leafy capitals to angles, the sides with finely painted panels with fill length figures of 18th century gallants within garden landscapes with chateaux backdrops, on conforming inverted breakfronted skirt base applied with cast repeating Neoclassical scroll infill and rosette to angles over squat toupe feet, (some damage to dial and right hand panel), 17cm (6.75ins) high. Provenance: The beneficiary of the Estate of a private collector, East Midlands. The Neoclassical design of the current lot is a scarce pattern which can be directly compared to an example illustrated in Roberts, Derek CARRIAGE and other Travelling CLOCKS pages 174 (Fig 10.19) and appears to draw its inspiration from the finest early French examples made by Breguet during the 1820's (see Roberts pages 25-29). The shield trademark L.F., PARIS stamped to the lower left hand corner of the backplate of the appears not to be recorded in the usual sources.