A fine French gilt brass carriage clock with painted porcelain panels and push-button repeat Retailed by Edward and Sons, Paris, London and Glasgow, circa 1880 The eight-day gong striking movement with silvered platform lever escapement and stamped with serial number 531 to lower left hand corner, the rectangular porcelain dial inscribed EDWARD & SONS, PARIS, LONDON & GLASGOW within Roman numeral hour numerals and with blued steel spade hands within gilt ground painted scene of a winter landscape incorporating robin perched within a snow covered tree to right hand margin, the bevel-glazed satin gilt brass case a variant on anglaise riche design with hinged reeded baton carrying handle over fluted cornice, plain three-quarter corner columns and side panels finely painted with full length portraits of Renaissance females dressed in ornate robes emblematic of summer and winter within garden landscape with unusual gilt infill to sky, the rear with gilt pin-hinged door, 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. George Edward and Sons were retailers of silver, jewellery and other luxury items (as well as being watch and clockmakers) founded in Glasgow by George Edward in 1838. In around 1874 they opened a branch at Mansion House Buildings, 19 Poultry, Cheapside, London and became a Limited Company in 1925. In 1963 Edward and Sons Limited were still trading from St. Vincent Street, Glasgow but were subsequently absorbed into the Mappin and Webb empire.