A George III ormolu and marble musical table clock, attributed to Stephen Rimbault, the dial painting attributed to Johan Zoffany, London, circa 1765

4¾-inch enamel dial, the centre painted with a scene taken from the Old Testament of Abigail before King David, the three train fusee and chain movement with verge escapement, striking the hours on a bell and playing one of two tunes at the hour on a nest of eight bells, the backplate engraved with foliate scrolls, the drum case with silvered trellis frets and applied with floral mounts and squirrels, the scroll supports on a concave-cornered marble plinth with gilt dogs to each corner, on a moulded marble base

Dial in generally very good condition with minor edge chips between III and IIII and V and VI, good original hands. Movement is complete, in good clean condition and looks as though it would run, music playing at time of cataloguing. The case in very good clean condition and retaining the original gilding, frets tarnished, marble in good condition. No winder.
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A very similar clock case with the movement signed Stephen Rimbault and a similar enamel dial attributed to Zoffany was sold by Crott, Frankfurt on 12th May 2012.
Stephen Rimbault is recorded as working in Great Andrews Street, London between 1744 and 1785.  He was of Huguenot descent and is noted for his musical and automaton clocks.
Johan Zoffany (1733-1810) arrived in London in 1760 and, due in part to his poor English, found difficulty in establishing himself as a portrait painter. He was iintroduced to Stephen Rimbault by his landlord, an Italian musical box maker named Bellodi, who worked for Rimbault, pinning musical cylinders for his clocks.  Rimbault employed Zoffany to paint the dials of his clocks.  It is thought that Rimbault took particular delight in a portrait which Zoffany had painted of him and, in return, introduced him to the portrait painter, Benjamin Wilson.  Zoffany went on to become a founder member of the Royal Academy and painted for David Garrick and the Royal Family.
See Treadwell, Penelope. Johan Zoffany. Artist and adventurer, London 2009, pp. 54-55