of lavish portico design, the breakfront base resting on eight toupee feet and modelled with two drawers flanking a central guilloché panel decorated in gold, blue, green and red metal foils against a rich royal blue ground, depicting floral sprays flanking an oval medallion enclosing a vase of floral blooms, each front of the drawers with a red and white paste-set finial, all bordered with a beaded edge and resting on three further guilloché panels, the top of the base decorated with eight chain-linked neoclassical vases, surrounding a central replaced mount modelled as an eagle standing on rockwork in the form of a bear's head, flanked by a pair of columns and plinths similarly delicately decorated with guilloché panels and paste gems depicting florets and foliage, each column surmounted by an ormolu vase issuing paste-set silver floral sprigs and decorated on the exterior with upright lappets, flanking a similar central vessel with paste-set silver floral sprays resting on the clock, the dial with a red and white paste-set bezel over a white enamel dial with dot minute track, Roman hours and Arabic quarters, encircling the pierced hands, the music work in the centre of the base