French Chantilly porcelain and ormolu mantel clock 18th century, modelled as two polychrome Chinese musicians seating on a rocky foliate outcrop, the later movement signed 'Vital', c. 1910, enclosed in a porcelain drum and raised on a gilt metal palm tree with a surround of flowers, restored, height 40 cm. Provenance: Martyn Cook Antiques, c. 2005. The Collection of Mr and Mrs Matthew Handbury, Sydney