Japy Freres Furniture

Very fine quality 19 century French Porcelain and Gilt Bronze Mantel Clock Garniture with hand painted Sevres style porcelain plaques. Mantel clock 20 1/2 by 17 by 6 inches. Urns 15...

An antique French bronzed spelter clock set with its pair of matching gilt candelabra / garniture. The finely cast figurine of a lady holding a manuscript is entitled Poésie and ...

An impressive French Renaissance Revival style clock garniture comprising a mantel clock and a pair of matching vases, circa 1870, gilt bronze with ornate champlevé enameling. The rectangular break arch clock...

Oval champleve decorated four glass mantel clock. French four glass mantel clock housed in a brass oval shaped case with sky blue ch...

A fabulous French antique, circa 1850, Sevres style porcelain mounted gilt metal mantel clock by Parisian sculptor and merchant Louis Hottot (1829-1905), with stamped Japy Freres sil...

Exceptional 19th century Japy Frere France mantle clock and matching garnitures set. Made of enamelled brass. Impressive mantle set, with intricate gothic swags highlighted in black champlevé enamel, along with a lion head and lion claws feet. Both the garniture/candlesticks and the clock are in fine working condition. The clock only needs very minimal winding. Stamped 'Japy Freres & cie medaille d'honneur' numbered 4937. Comes with a recent certificate of service from a local reputable antique clock...

A stunning original antique French clock by the famous maker Japy Frères. It is Louis XVI in style, mounted with exquisite Sèvres style porcelain. This has a cream ground delicately ...

A French Japonaise Ormolu & Champleve Enamel Five-Piece Clock Garniture France, Circa 1860 Comprising a mantel clock, a pair of vases and a pair of three-light candelabra, each with blue and turquoise ground and decorated with tropical flowers, the dial dated ' 3. AUGUST. / 1824 / 1874 ' The clock: 14.3/4 in. (37.5 cm.) high, 8 in. (20.3 cm.) wide, 7 in. (17.8 cm.) deep The candelabra: 12 in. (30.5 cm.) high The vases: 111/4 in. (29.8 cm.) high Champlevé is an enamelling technique in the decorative arts, or an object made by that process, in which troughs or cells are carved, etched, die struck, or cast into the surface of a metal object, and filled with vitreous enamel. The piece is then fired until the enamel fuses, and when cooled the surface of the object is polished. The uncarved portions of the original surface remain visible as a frame for the enamel designs; typically they are gilded in medieval work. The name comes from the French for "raised field", "field" meaning background, though the technique in practice lowers the area to be enamelled rather than raising the rest of the surface. The technique has been used since ancient times, though it is no longer among the most commonly used enamelling techniques. Champlevé is suited to the covering of relatively large areas, and to figurative images, although it was first prominently used in Celtic art for geometric designs. In Romanesque art its potential was fully used, decorating caskets, plaques and vessels, in Limoges enamel and that from other centres. Champlevé is distinguished from the technique of cloisonné enamel in which the troughs are created by soldering flat metal strips to the surface of the object. The difference between the techniques is analogous to the woodworking techniques of intarsia and marquetry. It differs from the basse-taille technique, which succeeded it in the highest quality Gothic work, in that the bottoms of the recesses for the enamel are rough, and so only opaque enamel colours are used. In basse-taille the recesses are modelled, and translucent enamels are used, for more subtle effects, as in the 14th century Parisian Royal Gold Cup. Enamel was first used on small pieces of jewellery, and has often disintegrated in ancient pieces that have been buried. Consistent and frequent use of champlevé technique is first seen in the La Tène style of early Celtic art in Europe, from the 3rd or 2nd century BC, where the predominant colour was a red, possibly intended as an imitation of red coral (as used on the Witham Shield), and the base was usually bronze. The "Insular Celts" of the British Isles made especially common use of the technique, seen as highlights on the relief decoration of the Battersea Shield and other pieces. However this was technically not true enamel in the usual sense of the word, as the glass was only heated until it became a soft paste before being pushed into place. This is sometimes informally known as "sealing-wax" enamelling, and may be described as "glass inlay" or similar terms. True enamelling technique, where glass paste is put into place and fired until it liquifies, was learnt from the Romans. The earliest literary description of enamel is from the Greek sophist Philostratus III, who wrote in his Icones (Bk I, 28), describing polychrome horse-harness: "It is said that the barbarians in the Ocean pour these colours on heated bronze and that they adhere, become as hard as stone and preserve the designs that are made on them". Celtic curvilinear styles were highly effective in enamel, and were used throughout the Roman period when they largely disappear in other media. The Staffordshire Moorlands Pan is a 2nd-century trulla with large enamel roundels in four colours of enamel, commissioned by or for Draco, a soldier, possibly a Greek, as a souvenir of his service on Hadrian's Wall. It is one of a group of similar enamelled vessels found in Britain and northern Gaul. Smaller items from similar contexts include brooches and other jewellery, and mounts for horse harness as described by Philostratus. Around the end of the Roman Empire new forms arose: the terminals of the increasingly fancy penannular brooches...

An attractive French black metal cased mantel clock with inset ceramic panels decorated with a Kingfisher, butterflies and foliage, the corners with four brass columns and surmounted...

A lovely painted metal clock dial with original hands by Japy Frères. Recovered by our buyer from a crumbling and forgotten French industrial building, it bares the scars of a hard l...

A beautiful, classically designed antique French gilt bronze clock set by Japy Frères. It features oval panels to the sides showing Fortun...

Antqiue late 19th Century French Japy Freres gilt brass enameled mantel clock featuring neoclassical styling with polychrome champleve enamel accents, four columns with spire finials, beveled glass sides and trophy vase topper. Stamped with Japy Freres Medaille D'honneur stamp. Eight day striking movement. 9470. Made in France. Japy Freres was founded in 1806 by Frédéric and his sons. Frédéric Japy (1749-1812) was a pioneer in the ""art"" of industrialisation and manufacturing. Watches/clocks were made individually, by hand, by one or more people and then assembled. Japy Freres manufactured their clocks and watches in one place on a production line using machines...

French Tortoiseshell Boulle Clock c.1860 Waisted case veneered with red tortoiseshell with finely figured brass and ormolu mounts, surmounted w...

A fine English black chinoiserie Georgian style break arch mantel clock with profusely decorated case with scenes of pagodas, garden scenes and a rare front panel of four ladies sat ...

A fabulous over one hundred and sixty year old Parisian neoclassical style Bardiglio marble three piece mantel set. Born in Paris, France in the mid 19th century, featuring an an...

Beautiful 19th century antique French clock garniture set Painted Sevres style blue panels surmounted with Lion mask faces Japy Freres Moveme...

French 19th century clock Meissen Porcelain & gilt bronze by Japy Freres Grand Med D'Honneur Each porcelain has its corresponde...

Art Deco Mahogany Mantel Clock Art Deco mahogany mantel clock housed in a break arch case with geometric fan inlay standing on block feet. Chrome b...

An outstanding antique 19th century French eight day brass gilt metal striking mantel clock by the premier makers of Paris, Henry Marcs and Japy...

A very important French gilt bronze and Rouge marble figural mantel clock by Japy Frères Movement: Japy Frères (1806-1930) Origin: French Date: 19th century Dimension: 30 3/4 i...

Black Forest carved mantel clock Black Forest mantel clock beautifully hand carved with fine attention to detail depicting a farmyard scene with a hen and chick feeding and a cock...

A table clock in the Louis XVI Manner By Japy Frères The finely chased ormolu case is dressed with pink 'Sèvres' style hand decorated polychrome panels to the face and sides, dep...

French gilt ormolu mantle clock with beautiful champlevé decoration with turned pilasters, architectural pediment with four turned finials. Gilded chapter ring with Roman numerals...

French four glass clock standing on a raised base with beaded decoration and fine Champleve enamel decoration to the pillars and bezel with fur...

An Exhibition Quality Garniture de Cheminée By Jules Graux of Paris Of important size and supreme quality, the mantle clock constructed from white Carr...

This beautiful clock set is designed in a fanciful Japanese style, known in France in the 19th Century as ‘Japonisme’. The style became highly fashionable in Europe after 1853, when ...

A Symbolic clock in the Louis XVI style By Japy Fréres et Cie. The finely chased ormolu case encompassing pink porcelain panels decorated with beads to the face and sides; the wh...

Rosewood Charles X clock with two incense burners also in rosewood and inlaid in boxwood. Restored and functioning. Mechanism signed Japy Freres. Japy Freres was founded 1n 1806 by F...

A superb original antique French Rococo clock by the famous maker Japy Freres, circa 1890. Beautifully detailed bronze case with C scrolls, acanthus and shell motifs. A charming cherub is seated to the top plays pipes. Fretted sound panels...

A fine chinoiserie gilt bronze and cloisonne three-piece clock set by Japy Freres. The ball encased movement hanging as a gong from a frame with bronze Chinese elements and cloisonn...

A Garniture de Cheminee by Japy Freres et Cie Constructed in two color gold ormolu, comprising a richly decorated mantle clock and two candelabra in the late Louis XVI manner; the b...

A fine and early clock set by the famous maker Japy Freres, in full working order. It is of superb quality in fine gilded bronze-mounted with delicately painted Sèrves style porcelain. It features a putto...