A FINE FRENCH GILT BRASS ANGLAISE RICHE CASED REPEATING CARRIAGE CLOCK WITH PAINTED PORCELAIN PANELSANTOINE REDIER, PARIS, CIRCA 1880The eight-day two train gong striking movement with silvered platform lever escapement regulated by sprung bimetallic balance, the backplate with stamped sunburst trademark over V.R, BREVETE to centre and serial number 4417 to lower left hand corner, the rectangular polychrome painted porcelain dial with incorporating Roman numeral chapter and blued steel trefoil hands over Romantic scene of a courting couple in 16th century style dress seated beside a river with castle in the distance, the satin gilt cast with hinged twist baton-centred carrying handle and bevelled top glass over fluted frieze to entablature incorporating projecting angles over three-quarter Corinthian columns to angles with twist decorated shafts, the sides with standing full length portraits of a Renaissance court guard opposing femalepanion, the rear with bevel-glazed door, onplex ogee-outline skirt base incorporating conforming projecting angles; with original Morocco covered protective travelling case and numbered winding key.18cm (7ins) high with handle down, 10.5cm (4.125ins) wide, 9cm (3,5ins) deep.Provenance: Private collection, East Midlands.Antoine Redier is recorded in Allix, Charles and Bonnert, Peter CARRIAGE CLOCKS, Their history and development as born in 1817. He is noted as first working in Paris in 1832 where his premises is subsequently recorded as being at Rue de Chatelet 2; he also had workshops in Saint-Nicholas-d'Aliermont. At the Great Exhibition of 1851 he showed a design of 'travelling and repeating clock, new invention'; he exhibited again in Paris in 1855 and received a Brevet for enamel dials with no false plates in 1857. He mainly served the English market and is thought to have worked until his death in 1892.