An ormolu pendulum clockwatch with Dehua blanc de Chine figures. Kangxi period (1662-1722), clock by Thomas Windmills, London A model of a seated lady with a flute and accompanying figure with a pipa. The round pendulum crowned by a pipe in the form of a dragon rider. Closed cartouche-shaped base plate of fire gilt bronze edged with a leaf border. Applied frogs, birds, a lizard, leaves and flowers of white French porcelain. Flowering branches inserted at the back. Round clock case with domed glass lid, white enamel dial with Roman and Arabic numerals in manganese (black). Spindle movement with brass plate in openwork, blued steel screws, engraved signature "Tho: Windmills/ London". The mounting 19th century, in the style of the French Régence period, the movement London, Thomas Windmills (master clockmaker). Part of movement broken off, hands replaced. H 28.5 cm. Formerly private collection, Belgium Compare an almost identical figure group with a young girl and a lady with a flute in Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinesisches und japanisches Porzellan in europäischen Fassungen, Munich 1987, ill. 388; see also Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la Pendule Française du Moyen Age au XXe siècle, Paris 1997, p. 147