Importante monumentale pendola Foresta Nera con calendario, suoneria e 19 automi

Rara pendola da viaggio detta “marescialla” con suoneria di ore e quarti, ripetizione a richiesta e sveglia. Cassa: in bronzo dorato con modanatura “gradinata” arricchita da fregi ed incisioni floreali, cimasa rastremata, maniglia pieghevole a forma di serpente che si morde la coda. La cassa poggia su quattro piedini a zampa di leone. Sul fronte, sportello con vetro per accedere ai fori di carica e per impostare l’ora, i minuti e la sveglia. Due cordoncini laterali per azionare la ripetizione e per armare la sveglia. Sul retro sportello per accedere al movimento. Quadrante “a fascia” circolare in smalto bianco con numeri arabi e fascia tratteggiata in smalto nero. Nella parte centrale decorazione in bronzo dorato con bassorilievo raffigurante la ninfa Clizia (figlia di Oceano) che osserva il sole (allegoria di Apollo, suo amato) appoggiata ad una ancora di nave. Due fori di carica decentrati per il tempo e la suoneria. Lancette in acciaio brunito. Movimento: in ottone, doppia platina, scappamento a verga, bilanciere monometallico, doppio bariletto, dispositivo di “advance – retard”, suoneria a rastrello su due campanelli. Dispositivo suona – non suona posto sotto il fondo della cassa. Firmata sul quadrante “LeRoy et...

Elegante pendola da tavolo con cassa di alta qualità in bronzo dorato rappresentante due putti che giocano con bolle di sapone su base in marmo rosso griotte. Soggetto molto raro. L'...

Bella e rara pendola francese detta “la ruche”, su modello di Claude Galle (nel 1786 già Maître-Fondeur) Cassa in bronzo dorato e brunito rappresentante un'antica arnia di api in pag...

Monumentale fontana da giardino in bronzo fuso rappresentante una famiglia di quattro delfini che saltano fra le onde: tre adulti ed un cucciolo a grandezza naturale. Excellent detai...

A monumental architectural French 19th century neoclassical Revival gilt bronze mounted beige and red onyx longcase grandfather clock. The very impressive clock-case surmounted by a figure of seated Classical male figure...

Garnish with clock and candelabra in porcelain and gilt bronze. France, 19th century. Mechanism in perfect working order. Fireplace garnish composed of a clock and two five-light candelabras, all three pieces made by combining gilt bronze, with relief elements and round bulges and cold-chiseled details, and porcelain decorated with low-temperature enamels, including gold enamel. The porcelain pieces follow models from the Sèvres National Manufacture of the 18th century, with large pictorial cartouches on a cobalt blue background adorned with golden plant motifs. The set follows a historicist design that combines baroque and neoclassical elements with enamelled scenes of Rococo inspiration, representing landscapes and scenes with mythological themes alluding to the arts and the goddess Venus. The clockwork is stamped “Chles. MT”, with serial number 17420. The main glazed porcelain plates are signed DP Boncher. The clock follows an architectural structure, with an oval base with a prominent front in plan, raised on four molded feet in the shape of a top, on which a large ornamental vase is placed. This plinth has a distinct pinto and, above it, a main body as a façade, with a circular pediment that houses the clock face. This includes black enamelled Roman numerals on white medallions with a gold border, arranged around the central representation of a putti reclining among clouds, holding a floral garland and accompanied by musical instruments. Among the medallions that house the numbers, a small jeweled decoration that evokes pearls and embedded rubies, which is echoed in the secondary areas of the body of the piece and also the vase, always combined with delicate golden filigrees. On both sides of the sphere are two female portraits of ladies from the 18th century, in oval frames. Below, a classically inspired scene with a muse holding musical instruments, probably Euterpe or Erató, accompanied by a putti reading a sheet of music. On the sides of the clock body, two large curved rectangular plates house highly pictorial enameled landscapes, worked with the same miniaturist precision as the rest of the enameled cartouches. These are landscapes of romantic heritage, again inspired by the 18th century, with ideal settings for a twilight atmosphere, featuring classical ruins. The vase that tops the body of the clock has a hemispherical tank, shoulders ending in an edge, an openwork truncated conical neck, which opens smoothly towards the shoulders, and a domed lid, also openwork. The handles are figurative, in bronze, with two female sisters crowned with flowers, of clear Greco-Latin inspiration, worked in a round shape. In the tank, the vase houses two enameled porcelain cartouches, the front one with two putti and a dove - a symbolic allusion to Venus - and the back one with musical instruments. The design of the clock is completed by two thick bronze S-shaped plant braces, under the vase, and counter moldings and plant motifs cast in relief and cold chiseled, combining matte and polished finishes. The candelabras follow a similar design, with large vases of neoclassical design on pedestals, in this case cylindrical, raised on four low feet of turned design. The bases house porcelain cartouches with scenes of putti related to the arts; In one of them we see two putti practicing painting, and in the other two others in a scene related to classical lyric poetry, with one putto writing while the other, holding a lyre, raises a laurel wreath above his head. The cartouches that occupy the front of the candelabra vases...

Clock and candelabra trim. Blued and gilded bronze, marble. Raingo Frères, Aaria, Clodion. Paris, France, second half of the 19th century. Working. The two candelabras follow a model highly appreciated in the 19th century of a bronze figure of a bacchante (a common figure in the procession of the classical god...

An early 19th century French eight day silk-suspension, striking clock, contained in ormolu case mounted with vases and urns of flowers with well-cast b...