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French Gilt Bronze and Faience Clock Set in the Chinoiserie Style
Located in London, GB
French gilt bronze and faience clock set in the chinoiserie style
French, late 19th century
Clock: Height 52cm, width 43cm, depth 18cm
Candelabra: Height 53cm, width 26cm, depth 1...
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French Chinoiserie Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu, Bronze
French 19th Century Clock Set with Roman Centurion and Candelabra
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality 19th century French gilded ormolu and green marble clock garniture. Having a pair of four branch candelabra with classical busts to t...
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French Classical Roman Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
A clock set 3 pieces imari porcelain and bronze
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Clock set three pieces in Imari porcelain and bronze . this clock set is rare ,you can use it with the candelabras , you can take off this candelabras and put the lid porcelain on th...
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French Napoleon III Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
$25,000 / set
Early 19th Century French Empire Mantel Clock, Portal Pendule, Paris circa 1820
By Duval
Located in Greven, DE
Antique French round arch portal clock
France (Paris)
Bronze, enamel
Empire circa 1820
Dimensions: H x W x D: 47 x 26 x 12 cm
Description:
Very beautiful, strictly architecturally...
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French Empire Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Victorian Antique Gilt Bronze Sèvres Style Porcelain Mantel Clock H. Bright Leam
Located in London, GB
Victorian Antique Gilt Bronze Sèvres Style Porcelain Mantel Clock H. Bright Leamington
English, Late 19th Century
Height 39cm, width 24cm, depth 12cm
This attractive late 19th-centu...
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English Victorian Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
Stunning quality antique Victorian ornate brass mantle clock
Located in Ipswich, GB
Stunning quality antique Victorian ornate brass mantle clock having a quality Victorian ornate brass mantle clock the clock itself having a chapter ring w...
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Victorian Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Brass
Fine Quality 19th Century Sevres Style Clock Garniture
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A fine quality 19th century French Sevres style porcelain and gilded ormolu clock garniture. The pair of five branch gilded ormolu candelabra each having Sevres style porcelain urns and pedestals with classical romantic scenes painted on them. The clock having an impressive lidded porcelain urn above with gilded handles either side, scrolling foliate ormolu mounts above the porcelain faced eight day duration clock that chimes...
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French Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
$30,837 Sale Price
20% Off
Early 19th Century French Empire Period Portico Clock
Located in Dublin, IE
A fine early 19th century French Empire period Portico clock of exceptional quality in the Neo-classical style, the clock housed in a richly figured mahogany case with four tapering ...
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French Empire Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
Fine quality antique Victorian mantle clock
Located in Ipswich, GB
Fine quality antique Victorian mantle clock, having a fine quality antique Victorian mantle clock with a black case with gilt metal columns to the side of the black dial with gold Ro...
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Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Slate, Brass
19th Century, Zinc Clock Trade Sign
Located in Sheffield, MA
One of the most exceptional trade signs that still exists is highly decorated with early, original paint and gold leaf. A rare small size, American circa 1860. H 20", in excellent crisp condition.
This clock trade sign...
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American Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Zinc
Unique Gothic Revival Gilt Bronze Table or Desk Clock w Rare Porcelain Plaques
By W.H. Tooke
Located in Lisse, NL
Wonderful clock for the collectors of truly stylish Gothic antiques, by W.H.Tooke, Paris.
Finding this unique (Germany made) Gothic table clock again felt like a blessing. The overall design is remarkable, but the combination of the craftsmanship of the bronze components and the hand crafted and hand painted Gothic porcelain plaques is what takes this clock to the next level. Whenever you find a piece that is this good then you can rest assure that there is a maker's mark. This late 1800s work of beauty was made and marked by the prolific Parisian clock...
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German Gothic Revival Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Large 19th Century Louis XVI Style Bronze Ormolu Mantel Clock Guibal Paris
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
A fine and large Louis XVI style French mantel clock, from the end of the Napoleon III period, 1870-1880. The clock is bronze casted and has a fire-gilded finish, the dial is enamele...
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French Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Brass, Bronze, Enamel, Ormolu
Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze and White Marble Clock By François Linke, circa 1890
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine Louis XVI style gilt bronze and white marble clock depicting Diana and Cupid, by François Linke.
French, circa 1890.
Signe...
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French Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Very Large French 19th Century Empire Period Ormolu Bronze Portico Mantel Clock
Located in New York, NY
French Empire Ormolu Bronze Portico Mantel Clock by Gaston Jolly, Paris, Circa 1810s, with original pendulum.
Category
Empire Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Antique French Gilt Bronze
Champleve
Marie Antoinette
Mantel or Table Clock
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This 'Marie Anoinette' antique clock is signed on the face by an unknown maker, and originated from France and dating to approximately 1880 and done in the period Louis XVI style. Th...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Louis XVI Style Pink Porcelain Mantel Clock, 19th Century
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality French 19th Century Louis XVI style gilded ormolu and 'Severs' style pink porcelain mantel clock. In the form of a vase with an inset clock face, an eight day dur...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
Clock set three pieces in sevres style and bronze
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very nice high-end clock set three pieces in sevres style and bronze,this clock set have a plus ,the dial is in sevres ,original condition and never touch, the quality of the depic...
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French Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Antique French Gilt Bronze Ormolu-Mounted Onyx Figural Mantel Clock, Circa 1815
Located in Tarry Town, NY
An extraordinary example of Empire period craftsmanship, this grand French mantel clock was created circa 1815 by the esteemed sculptor and clockmaker Albert Ernest. It exemplifies t...
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Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Onyx, Bronze, Ormolu
19th Century Bronze Three Piece Garniture Clock Set by Ferdinand Barbedienne
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Unusual monumental clock set in Griotte marble signed Barbedienne and on the top of the clock you have a bronze made by one of the famous bronze m...
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French Napoleon III Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Griotte Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Antique French Gilt Bronze Baroque Clock
Located in Belper, Derbyshire
A beautiful original antique French clock, modelled in the Baroque style in gilt bronze. It is of architectural form with an applied motif of flowers, scrolls and cornucopia. Scrolli...
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French Baroque Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Napoléon III Sèvres Style Clock Garniture, Gilt-Bronze
Porcelain
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine Napoléon III gilt-bronze and sèvres style cobalt blue ground 'Jewelled' Porcelain Three-Piece Clock Garniture
Comprising a mantel clock and a pair of five-light vase candel...
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French Napoleon III Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
Large Rococo Ormolu Antique French Clock, Genius of Music
By Vincenti et Cie, Cie Des Bronzes De Bruxelles
Located in Belper, Derbyshire
A superb and substantial ormolu clock from a design by the 18th century bronze founder Robert Osmond and made by the famous Compagnie des Bronze of Bruss...
Category
French Rococo Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
Early 19th Century Antique Bracket Clock by Grimalde
Johnson of London
Located in Devon, GB
An antique late George III period ebonized bracket clock by Grimalde and Johnson, strand. This attractive clock of small proportions, has a mou...
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British Regency Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Wood
Very Large French Louis XV Style Ormolu Mantel Clock
Located in London, GB
Very large French Louis XV style ormolu mantel clock
French, circa 1880
Measures: Height 98cm, width 50cm, depth 27cm
This fine 19th century clock is unusually large, standing a...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu, Bronze
Fine Porcelain Mounted Ormolu Mantel Clock
Located in London, by appointment only
France, circa 1880
The ormolu case mounted with fine painted porcelain scenes of a courting couple. This unusual mauve colour pallet emphasizes the...
Category
French Napoleon III Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
French Mid-19th Century Louis XVI Style Three-Piece Garniture Set
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An exceptional and extremely high quality French 19th century Louis XVI st. Belle Époque period marble and ormolu three piece garniture set signed Raingo Frères, Paris. The clock and original matching pair of candelabras are raised by impressive marble bases with the clock raised on reeded block feet at the front and elegant fluted topie shaped feet at each side. At the center is a striking fitted ormolu plaque with lovely scrolled acanthus leaves and Rinceau shaped scrolls flanked by lovely fluted designs with fitted ormolu foliate chandelles. Impressive intricately detailed cornucopias lead up each side with beautiful ripe fruit and blooming flowers tied with a wonderfully executed flowing ribbon. The enameled clock face displays elegant pierced ormolu hands and Roman numeral hour markers and Arabic numeral minute markers centering the signature and framed within the ormolu bezel with a fine laurel band and the original hand blown glass. The graceful arch shaped top displays a superb ormolu reserve of the eternal flame, a quiver, and a bow tied to a berried laurel wreath with a ribbon symbolizing peace, prosperity, and protection. At the center of each candelabra is a remarkable spiral fluted support centered by four elegant curved supports with fine foliate accents and charming swaging chains. Above is the impressive richly chased acorn finial above the two curved fluted arms also adorned with remarkable chains and large acanthus leaves leading to lovely foliate candle cups. All original gilt throughout.
Candelabra dimensions: H: 13" L: 8.5" D: 4.25"
Raingo Fréres, established in 1813 in Paris, specialized in the high precision clock...
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French Belle Époque Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Gilt Bronze and Marble Figural Clock
Located in Atlanta, GA
A very fine gilt bronze, patinated bronze and marble clock by Marlin & Cottin, 26 rue Amelot, Paris. The body of the clock made rouge marble ornate with gilt bronze garlands raised o...
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French Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Late 19th Century Empire-Style Longcase Clock
Located in Paris, FR
Impressive mahogany longcase clock with gilt and sculpted decorative bronze elements such as fantastic animals, diamond-shaped patterns, scrollwork, and foliage. This floor clock is ...
Category
French Empire Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu, Bronze
French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Ormolu and Porcelain Clock
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An elegant French 19th century Louis XVI St. ormolu and porcelain clock. The small scale clock is raised by fine tapered fluted legs below striking richly chased block rosettes cente...
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French Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
Quality Antique Victorian Walnut Desk Clock
Located in Suffolk, GB
Quality antique Victorian walnut desk clock having a quality attractive walnut and ebonised shaped case with a drum shaped clock flanked by carved scrolls on a moulded plinth, original brass bezel and glass, quality enamel dial, original hands and striking on the hour and half hour on a bell.
A charming clock...
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European Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Walnut
$1,205 Sale Price
20% Off
A magnificent bronze clock depicting a resting Cupid
Located in Atlanta, GA
A magnificent bronze clock depicting a resting Cupid with his quiver and bow and a dove as messenger of love. The whole raised on Rouge Griotte marble plinth enriched with gilt and m...
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French Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Louis Phillippe Bronze Clock, France, c 1830-1840
Located in Kastrup, DK
Louis Phillippe gilded and dark patinated bronze clock.
Young woman adorned with wings and a bird on the shoulder sitting on rock block.
Gilt dial with wreath of flowers.
Included ke...
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French Louis Philippe Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Antique French Ormolu and Sevres Porcelain Clock
By A.D. Mougin
Located in Belper, Derbyshire
A richly decorative French mantel clock, finely modelled in gilt bronze and mounted with exquisite Sèvres style porcelain with a cream ground. The central porcelain panel depicts an ...
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European Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
Hubert Sarton Style, Louis XVI, Porcelain, Bronze, Marble, Mantle Clock, 19th C.
Located in Manhasset, NY
Hubert Sarton Style, Louis XVI, Porcelain, Bronze, Marble, Mantle Clock, France, 19th C.
A Louis XVI style mantle clock after one of Belgium's greatest clockmakers, Hubert Sarton (1...
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French Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Exceptional Late 19th Century Three-Piece Clock Set by Ferdinand Gervais
Located in Long Island City, NY
An exceptional late 19th century gilt bronze-mounted marble three-piece clock set
By Ferdinand Gervais
The lyre shaped case surrounded with bronze roses, acanthus and lilys, a ...
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French Belle Époque Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
French Ormolu Bronze and Champlevé Enamel 8-Day Regulator Clock
Located in Tarzana, CA
A late 19th century French ormolu bronze and champlevé enamel 8-day regulator clock,
circa 1890.
Origin: France.
Height 18.5".
Width: 9.5".
Depth...
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French Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Enamel, Ormolu
Very Impressive French 19th Century Neoclassical Lyre-Form Clock
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
An impressive French 19th century Neoclassical Lyre-form clock with jeweled pendulum.
Amazing quality white and yellow marble 19th century French Lyre-Form clock mounted all over with gilt bronze...
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French Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Crystal, Marble, Enamel, Ormolu
$7,191 Sale Price
52% Off
Antique French Louis XV Style Bronze Pendulum Mantel Clock with Flowery Decor
Located in Lisse, NL
Good size and wonderful quality, heavy bronze clock.
This late 19th century work of time telling art is in very good condition and the design is both elegant and stylish. We have cl...
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French Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Clock Set in Bronze Three Pieces
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Clock set three pieces louis XV style in bronze ,quality and detail are very finely executed
Dimensions of the candelabras
H: 11 inch W: 6.5
Clock dimension are in description.
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French Louis XV Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Pendulum Clock Bronze
Marble Representing Virgin Child
St John the Baptist
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Very beautiful fireplace clock in marble, patinated and gilded bronze representing the Virgin Mary sitting on a rock holding the infant Jesus in her arms, with at their side st John ...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
$2,301 Sale Price
76% Off
Empire Mantel Clock - La Bibliotheque, Ormolu, France, Paris, circa 1820
By Le Roi
Located in Greven, DE
Mantel Clock - La Bibliotheque - In the study room
Paris
fire-gilt bronze, enamel
Empire around 1820
Dimensions: H x W x D: 38 x 28 x 19 cm
Description:
Scenery mounted on an oval...
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French Empire Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Gilt and Patinated Bronze Three Piece Clock Set by Victor Pierret
By Victor Athanase Pierret
Located in Long Island City, NY
A fine mid-19th century gilt and patinated bronze three-piece clock set
By Victor Pierret
The figural clock of a woman and a bird seated next to a basket of roses above a gilded base designed with flowers. The candelabra with cherubs holding six lights and sitting on a gilt sea shell base...
Category
French Belle Époque Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Antique French Ormolu
Sevres Porcelain 3 Piece Clock Candelabra Garniture 1870
Located in Portland, OR
An outstanding quality antique gilded bronze & Sevres porcelain French 3 piece, 8 day clock garniture with candelabra, by Brocot & Delettrez, Paris, circa 1870.
The clock with an 'egg' shaped urn made of cobalt blue Sevres porcelain with a hand-painted panel with a neo-classical beauty and a cupid, the rear is painted with gilt birds & floral decoration. The urn with gilt bronze handles to the sides held in the mouths of lion's masks, the clock below also with sumptuously decorated with gilded cobalt porcelain panels, the clock dial with black Roman numerals & is finely painted with two horses and a chariot with a putti falling out of the chariot. The clock has two winding arbors one for the 8 day time wind the other for a chime, the clock chimes the hours on a soft delicate sounding bell, the clock is in full working order and was recently professionally cleaned.
The clock is complemented with a pair of gilt bronze & cobalt blue Sevres porcelain four branch vasiform candelabras, decorated with oval panels to the front with putti & Neoclassical maidens, the back panels finely painted with birds, each candelabra is in two sections and raised on gilt bronze bases with corbel brackets & acanthus leaf feet.
The bronze casting is very likely by the Barbedienne Foundry in Paris, as the quality is outstanding, the clock is stamped "BD" for Achille Brocot (1817-1878) and Jean-Baptiste Delettrez (1816-1887), they were two of the most important French clock makers of the mid to late 19th century, please see some biography below.
The clock is mechanically & cosmetically in excellent condition, and was recently overhauled by a clock-smith, the porcelain & ormolu are also in excellent condition, one of the very best investment quality gilt-bronze & Sevres porcelain clock garnitures by the top French makers of the period, circa 1870.
This garniture will be professionally crated for shipping.
Delettrez and Achille Brocot, son of the respected clockmaker Louis-Gabriel Brocot, established the clockmaking company "Brocot et Delettrez" in Paris on 20 October 1851, with premises at 62 Rue Charlot Paris. Jean-Baptiste Delettrez worked alongside Achille Brocot for several years and their clock movements are considered to be the most effective made during the late 19th century. Their specialty was a range of clocks based on the innovations of Brocot père and his other son Antoine, but generally of Achille's greatly advanced original design, some having a unique single-arm double-wheel escapement, some having a temperature-compensated pendulum, some having two dials, one of which showed the time and the other which showed a calendar and often other information such as phases of the moon, times of sunrise & sunset in Paris, etc. The firm was awarded a 1st class prize at the Paris World Exposition of 1857 for a commercial clock...
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French Belle Époque Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
Large 19th Century Neoclassical Figural Bronze and Marble Mantle Clock
Located in New York, NY
Large 19th century neoclassical figural patinated with gilt highlight bronze and marble mantle clock depicting Diana The Hunter.
The marble is hand painted with classical decorations.
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Italian Neoclassical Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Gothic Bronze and Brass Mantel Clock
Located in Amersham, GB
A gothic revival bronze and brass bracket clock with a 5-inch silvered convex Roman dial. The twin fusee movement strikes on a bell, with a heavy high quality pendulum and hold fast...
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English Gothic Revival Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Fine and Large French 19th Century Mantle Clock Louis XV by Raingo Fres Paris
Located in Dallas, TX
A very fine 19th century French Louis XV gilt bronze and patinated bronze clock by Raingo Fres Paris.
Category
French Louis XV Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Clock Set in Marble and Bronze by F.Gervais
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Truly unique clock set in pink marble and bronze decorative piece of art
the clock is modelled in the image of an 18 century sedan chair that is covered ...
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French Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Antique French Ormolu and Sevres Porcelain Clock
By Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, Oppenheim
Located in Belper, Derbyshire
An exquisite antique French ormolu clock mounted with Sevres style porcelain. Made in finely gilded bronze, sculptured as a large gadrooned and handled urn, draped with acanthus garl...
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French Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
Napoleon 111 three piece clock set
Located in London, GB
Magnificent marble and gilt bronze three piece clock set
This clock set is in the napoleon 111 period
Attributed to Francois Linke
Category
French Louis XV Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble
$16,440 / set
Automaton Industrial series Quarterdeck, Helmsman mantel clock by Guilmet
Located in London, GB
Antique French, "Ship's Quarter Deck" Automata clock from the Industrial Series. The bronze and silvered case is in the form of a ship's quarter deck, s...
Category
French Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Copper
Louis XV Style Gilt Brass Mantel Clock
Located in Astoria, NY
Louis XV Style Gilt Brass Mantel Clock, late 19th century, case surmounted by a cherub seated by a clamshell, surrounded by seashells and dolphins and fishtails, the circular dial wi...
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French Louis XV Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Brass, Enamel
A very fine 19th century French gilt bronze clock
Located in Dallas, TX
A very fine 19th century French Louis XVI gilt bronze mantle clock . Signed by the clockmaker
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Louis XVI Boulle mantel clock, 19th Century.
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality 19th Century French Louis XVI style Boulle mantel clock, having Father Time perched above the brass inlaid dome, scrolling foliate ormolu mounts, white enamel Rom...
Category
French Louis XIV Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Brass
Howell and James, A small Aesthetic Movement walnut mantle clock
Located in London, GB
Howell and James in the style of Lewis Foreman Day. A small Aesthetic Movement walnut mantle clock with brass finials and brass feet, a pierced gallery to the top centred with a fan ...
Category
British Aesthetic Movement Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Brass
Antique French Gilt Bronze Clock with Portrait Plaque of Molière 19th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a superb antique French gilt bronze mantel clock with Bleu Celeste porcelain panels in the Sevres manner, circa 1860 in date.
The case crowned with two cherubs holding laurels one holding a mask emblematic of theatre, flanking an oval Bleu Celeste porcelain panel of the playwright Molière .
The base decorated with ormolu flowers is raised on turned feet and inset with Sevres plaques decorated with cherubs.
The circular dial has Roman and Arabic numerals and the clock has an 8 day striking movement complete with count wheel strike and bell, stamped with Miroy Freres...
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French Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
French Empire Ormulu Bronze Mantel Clock, Lepaute, Thomire, Paris, circa 1815
Located in Greven, DE
Ormulu pendule with depiction of friendship and love
Paris (Lepaute, Thomire)
fire-gilt bronze
Empire around 1815
Dimensions: H x W x D: 44 x 36 x 13 cm
French pendulum movement with eight days duration. Thread suspension and lock disc striking movement with strike on bell on the half and full hour.
White enamel dial with Roman hour numerals and Breguet hands.
Signature: LePaute & Fils / Hrl. du Roi (Pierre-Basile Lepaute (1750 - 1843) with his son Pierre-Michel Lepaute (1785-1849); from 1811 in joint workshop).
Description:
The extremely high quality pendulum shown here takes up a profound theme: Friendship, which combines with love and can thereby outlast time and death. As it is typical for the epoch of classicism, personifications and symbols are taken from the fund of ancient mythology and art and then developed further.
The main figure is a young woman in an antique, girded garment, standing barefoot and with crossed legs next to an altar, on which she is leaning with her left elbow. She gracefully bows her head towards a tempestuously approaching Cupid, grasps his right hand with her left and draws him to her bosom, the seat of the heart. The delicate ambivalence of flying towards and being held culminates in the trustingly intimate look that the two cast at each other.
The young woman personifies friendship, the winged Cupid love. As a sign of their intimate connection, two burning hearts appear on the altar next to the two, framed by the puffed scarf, which are closely bound together by a chain of flowers.
Next to them, on the altar slab, one can see an erected book with the title "Amitie" (French: amitie, friendship). Supporting the book is a pomegranate held by a ring of pomegranate flowers. The bursting seeds spill out of the cracked skin. Since ancient times, the pomegranate and its blossoms have been dedicated to the goddess Persephone, symbolizing the underworld and death, but also life and fertility. The myrtle interwoven in the pomegranate flower wreath of "friendship" also has a far-reaching symbolic power: the plant was dedicated to the goddess Aphrodite, stands for virginity, and was and is therefore obligatory in the bridal wreath...
Category
French Empire Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
19th C. Tall Louis Philippe Carved Alabaster and Brass Clock Under Glass Dome
Located in Morristown, NJ
Mid 19th C, France, a highly decorative antique mantel clock enclosed under a glass dome. The clock is made of alabaster, a material often used in neoclassical and empire-style cloc...
Category
French Louis Philippe Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Alabaster, Brass
Russian Marble and Malachite Clock Stand
Located in Astoria, NY
Russian Black Marble and Malachite Clock Stand, 19th century, gilt metal mounted. 14.5" H x 8.25" W x 3.5" D.
Category
Russian Neoclassical Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Malachite, Marble, Metal
Empire Gilt-Bronze Clock Depicting Diana the Huntress. French, c 1820
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine Empire Period gilt bronze clock depicting Diana the huntress.
The dial signed 'Thomas a Paris'.
The white enamel dial with Roman numerals and Breguet hands, the case sur...
Category
French Empire Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
French Fluorspar and Ormolu Clock Garniture
Located in New Orleans, LA
This beautiful French clock garniture, styled in the Louis XV taste, is a charming work of artistry and craftsmanship. Crafted of richly veined and brightly-hued fluorspar mounted wi...
Category
French Rococo Antique 19th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Stone, Bronze
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