An English skeleton clock, designed as a French Lyre mantel clock in Louis XVI style, made in the second half of the eighteenth century. The base of grey and white marble is embellished by gilt ornaments in the shape of two mythological figures and rests on four ormolu bun feet. The frame is in the shape of a lyre with an ormolu ornament at the top, depicting a bird within a laurel wreath. The movement has an open-shaped white enamel dial with Roman numerals and a pair of gilt period hands. The movement has skeletonised plates, the back plate in the shape of a star. It has a going train only, driven by a spring barrel and chain fusee. The pendulum has knife-edge suspension and is in the form of a pearl ring around the dial.