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Napoleon III Carriage Clocks and Travel Clocks

NAPOLEON III STYLE

Under Napoleon III’s rule, Paris underwent a great rebuilding overseen by Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann, which created grand avenues and lavish landmarks like the Paris Opera. Antique Napoleon III–style furniture was flamboyant and eclectic. It was also known as Second Empire style since it followed and referenced the Empire style of his uncle Napoleon I.

Developing from 1852–70, Napoleon III furniture was plush and ornate, matching the fashion for masked balls and socializing in salons. It borrowed freely from earlier French styles including Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI as well as aesthetics from around the world, from antiquity to Asian art. As writer Gustave Claudin remarked in 1867, the country’s architects worked in “a style which one would be tempted to call neo-Greco-Gothico-Pompadour-Pompeian.”

Napoleon III chairs were completely covered with velvet and lined with tassels; pouf footstools invited people to put up their feet. Sofas were upholstered with tapestries, and beds were adorned with gilt bronze and theatrical canopies. The addition of conservatories to homes led to new indoor-outdoor furniture, while the spirit of hygiene promoted by Baron Haussmann inspired bright, floral motifs.

Although the most ostentatious designs were for the elite, as seen in the Napoleon III apartments preserved in the Louvre, where red velvet, gilding and chandeliers create a cacophony of luxury, these trends influenced homes across classes as manufacturing made design increasingly accessible. Papier-mâché furniture allowed for elaborate shapes that would have been difficult to carve in wood. The malleable material was painted with chinoiserie patterns and decorative designs. It was mass-produced by factories such as Jennens and Bettridge with varnishing and mother-of-pearl inlays creating an effect reminiscent of Asian lacquer. (Surfaces that had been “japanned” — a specialty of Jennens and Bettridge — were intended to resemble lacquer work that was created in East Asia.)

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Style: Napoleon III
French Multi-Dial Gorge Case Carriage Clock
Located in Newark, England
Multi-Dial White Enamel From our Carriage Clock collection, we are delighted to offer this superb model French Multi-Dial Gorge Case Carriage Clock. The Carriage clock within a gilt...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Napoleon III Carriage Clocks and Travel Clocks

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Metal, Brass, Enamel

French Multi-Dial Gorge Case Carriage Clock
French Multi-Dial Gorge Case Carriage Clock

French Multi-Dial Gorge Case Carriage Clock

$5,560
A superb 19th century eight day grande sonnerie carriage clock, circa 1870.
Located in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
A superb nineteenth century eight day grande sonnerie carriage clock of typical size, c. 1870. The gilt-brass gorge case has glass panels to all sides, and there is a viewing window ...
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19th Century French Antique Napoleon III Carriage Clocks and Travel Clocks

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Brass

A superb 19th century eight day grande sonnerie carriage clock, circa 1870.
A superb 19th century eight day grande sonnerie carriage clock, circa 1870.

A superb 19th century eight day grande sonnerie carriage clock, circa 1870.

$5,490
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