A PAINTED ENAMEL CLOCK FACE CHINA, QING DYNASTY, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY |

the cirucular face with numerals in  black is set in a square of blue enamel with gilt scrollwork, and in a lunette above is a lightly-drawn landscape in polychrome with Western buildings on stilts and a flagpole in the foreground, where a hatted figure with a raised umbrella watches boatmen on a lake, and a figure with a stick crosses a bridge under trees towards a pavilion; beyond are a pagoda and a distant mountains. 

Ancienne collection Mottahadeh.
Vente Sotheby's à New York, le 19 octobre 2000.

David Sanctuary Howard et John Ayers, China for the West, Chinese porcelain and other decorative arts for Export illustrated from the Mottahadeh collection, 1978, ill. 667, p. 638-639.

There are some losses to the enamels especially along the corners and around the holes in the middle of the plaque. There is wear to the gilding and to the enamel.
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"Faces for longcase clocks in this form with lunette above containing a decorative scene were common in Europe during the eigtheen century. Very few examples of this kind however would appear to have been made in China. An interesting clock-face in Dutch defltware painted with a landscape and dated 1768 is in the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels (Helbig, faiences hollandaises, II, P. 36)". David Sanctuary Howard et John Ayers, China for the West, Chinese porcelain and other decorative arts for Export illustrated from the Mottahadeh collection, 1978, ill. 667, p. 638-639.