A well-proportioned French Louis XV 8-day striking longcase clock (horloge de parquet), movement and dial signed Gault à Paris, date aperture, centre second, the top quality case signed Jollain, exuberantly decorated with period ormolu mounts and veneered with woods like amaranth, satinwood and tulipwood marquetry, in the upper panel a depicting allegory of the crafts surrounded by flowers, in the lower panel a man in a landscape playing the flute under a tree, a village in the background. Height 214 cm, ca. 1750.