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Antique French Ormolu Bronze Case Portico Pillar Mantel Clock with Double Swan
Located in Danville, CA
1880 Antique French Ormolu Bronze Case Portico Pillar Mantel Clock w Double Swan
MOVEMENT: 8 day wind up mechanism
FUNCTION: time with half h...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Louis XVI Neoclassical Style Bronze & Marble Three Piece Clock
Located in Chicago, IL
Circa 1890 French Jewel Escape Movement Bronze and Marble Three Piece Clock and Candle Garniture. The clock piece of this set features three bronze putti...
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Late 19th Century French Empire Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Enamel
French Louis XV Porcelain Patinated Gilt Bronze Clock Signed Hottot Japy Freres
Located in Forney, TX
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...
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Mid-19th Century French Louis XV Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Metal, Brass, Bronze
French Louis XVI Style Gilt and Patinated Bronze White Marble Cherub Cupid Clock
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A fine French Louis XVI Style gilt and patinated bronze and white marble figural mantel clock with a figure of a drummer cherub. The brown patina cupid, seated on gilt-bronze clouds ...
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Early 1900s French Belle Époque Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
1880 French Silk Suspension Ormolu Empire Bronze Mantel Clock by Angevin A Paris
Located in Danville, CA
Antique French Ormolu Empire bronze mantel clock by Angevin A Paris
Movement: 8 day wind up mechanism
Function: time with half hour an...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Fine French Verdi Marble and Bronze Mantel Clock of an Enrobed Wise Old Scholar
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
This is a gorgeous and very unique French mantle or mantel clock featuring a gorgeous figure of a scholar in robes recling while reading books. The clock is surmounted with verdi gre...
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1920s French Neoclassical Revival Vintage Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Slate, Bronze
Bronze Ansonia "The Composer " Figural Mantel Clock
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Bronze Ansonia " The Composer" figural mantel clock, with a seated figure surmounted on a Rococo style base. Clock is signed 4-inch porcelain dial with Roman numerals and stamped ste...
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Early 1900s North American Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Sterling Bronze Company Mantle Clock
Located in Essex, MA
A nice clock of the same period as Caldwell and with Chelsea works of Boston. With key.
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Early 20th Century American Neoclassical Revival Mantel Clocks
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Antique Victorian French Quality Bronze and Marble Eight Day Mantle Clock
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique Victorian French quality bronze and marble eight day mantle clock by P L Hausburg Paris having a fantastic quality bronze figure leaning on the drum case with a signed white enamel dial, Roman numerals and original hands, twin train eight day French movement striking on the hour and half hour on a bell above a black marble moulded...
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19th Century European Victorian Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Japy Freres Louis XVI Antique French Gilt Bronze Clock Set
By Japy Frères
Located in Belper, Derbyshire
A beautiful, classically designed antique French gilt bronze clock set by Japy Frères. It features oval panels to the sides showing Fortun...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Louis XVI Style and Sèvres Style Porcelain Mantel Clock by Raingo Frères
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze and Sèvres Style Porcelain Mantel Clock, by Raingo Frères, Paris. The porcelain panels signed by Léonard Abel Schilt.
The movement stamped 'Raingo F...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
French Japonisme Mantel Clock and Candelabra Attributed to Edouard Lievre
Located in New York, US
Our mantel clock and candelabra with silvered, gilt and cloisonne enamel surfaces in the French Japonisme style dates from the 1870s and is in good condition. Attributed to the influ...
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Late 19th Century French Japonisme Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Mantel Clock 19th Century Styl Empire by Leroy à Paris
Located in Warsaw, PL
Mantel clock 19th Century Empire
Le Roy et fils (French, founded 1785)
Le Roy et fils was a prestigious French clock making firm. The company was fou...
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Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Sèvres Porcelain Mantel Set, 19th Century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Sèvres porcelain mantel set, 19th century.
A Sèvres porcelain and gilt bronze mantelpiece, Napoleon III period, 19th century.
Measures: clock - H: 56 ...
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19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Renaissance Style Gilt Bronze and Enamel Mantel Clock
Located in London, GB
Renaissance style gilt bronze and enamel mantel clock
French, late 19th century
Measures: Height 53cm, width 28cm, depth 23cm
This exquisite mantel clock is crafted in the idios...
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Late 19th Century French Renaissance Revival Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu, Bronze, Enamel
Large French Empire Period Gilt Bronze Figural Mantel Clock of Exceptional Quali
Located in Benington, Herts
A large and impressive French Empire period gilt bronze mantel clock of exceptional quality and colour.
French (possibly retailed in Italy) - Circa 1820.
The finely chased and original gilt bronze case depicting Orpheus playing his lyre with an eight-day bell striking movement, outside countwheel, backplate initialled and numbered 'A C D 1516’.
The dial with Roman numerals and inscribed Riccardo Pacinoti of Lavourne. It is a French movement (silk suspension) striking the hour and half hour. The case in the form of an oblong pillar cast with anthemium and cornucopia beneath a draped urn and a laurel wreath, flanked by the figure of Orpheus playing his lyre, the stepped plinth cast with wonderfully detailed underworld scenes, on leaf scroll feet.
In excellent condition the clock case has been cleaned with the movement completely overhauled and serviced to the highest standard by a specialist restorer.
In general 19th century French bronze clocks...
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1820s French Empire Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
French Napoleon III chariot clock in ormolu & marble vert
Located in London, GB
A good French Napoleon III period chariot clock of antique vert marble and ormolu. The subject is of cupid riding a fine chariot drawn by a pair of livel...
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1850s French Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Superb Quality French Marble, Ormolu & Bronze Clock
Located in Seaford, GB
A truly superb quality French Rouge Marble and Ormolu mounted clock with a Classical Bronze Maiden on top.
We have not tested the movement but it is original and if you required it ...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Greek Revolution or Hellenistic Clock of Marmaluke
Located in London, GB
Greek Revolution or Hellenistic clock of Marmaluke. Constructed of patinated bronze and ormolu, the fire gilt/mercury gilding in excellent original condition. The Marmaluke is laying on an animal skin blanket, wearing a turban with a blue jewel to the top and has a dagger in his hand. The naturalistic base is in patinated bronze with ormolu paw feet with an ormolu acanthus swag between . There is also an applied ormolu mount of a wreath. The dial is of white enamel with blued steel hands. The movement has been changed at some point in its past to an English movement signed Townsend London. The movement is an adapted English Sedan clock...
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1820s French Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
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...
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Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
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...
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Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
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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Mid-19th Century French Louis Philippe Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
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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1890s French Louis XV Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
French Empire vine orientated vase clock signed Blanc Fils
Located in London, GB
A fine French Empire vase or urn clock in patinated bronze and fire/ mercury gilt ormolu. With berry finial, fine Bacchus mounts to the shoulders o...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
19th Century Bronze Clock
Located in Van Nuys, CA
This beautiful 19th Century clock has exquisite attention to detail. Cherubs are back to back at the top bell tower while a draped women holds the clock above her head.
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19th Century Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Antique French Napoleon III chariot clock in ormolu & Verde Antico marble
Located in London, GB
A French ormolu and verde antico marble striking chariot clock, Circa mid 19th century.
The Clock is all original and still has it's important original ...
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1850s European Napoleon III Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
An early 19th century French bronze and marble mantel clock
Located in London, GB
An impressive early 19th Century French bronze 8-day striking Clock with silver dial surmounted by Spartacus, breaking his chains perched on rocks with quiver and shield raised on Sienna marble base mounted with military plaque...
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Early 19th Century French Régence Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Mantel Clock 18th Century Louis XVI Period by Arnoux À Paris
Located in Warsaw, PL
This elegant portico clock crafted in transitional Louis XVI – Empire style from ormolu, white and black marble, is signed on the dial “Arnoux à Paris”. Decorative motifs of Louis XV...
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Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Antique French Gilt Bronze and Cut Glass Clock Set
Located in London, GB
This beautiful three-piece clock set is designed in a French neoclassical style, popular in 19th century decorative arts. The set has been crafted from clear, cut glass and fine gilt...
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19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Pair of Bronze Candelabras, France, 19th Century
Located in Belmont, MA
Pair of bronze candelabras, France 19th century. The Historicism candelabras have 7 candleholders. They are decorated with rocaille, lattice...
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1870s French Napoleon III Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Turquoise Sèvres Style Jeweled Porcelain and Ormolu Clock Set
Located in New York, NY
A high quality gilt bronze and Turquoise Sèvres style jeweled Porcelain clock set. The clock surmounted by a covered urn and flanked by lion masks on each side, en suite with a pair of painted turquoise porcelain vases...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu, Bronze
French Romantic Period Antique Vert Marble, Ormolu & Patinated Bronze Clock
Located in London, GB
Antique mantel clock from the french Romantic period in patinated bronze, gilt bronze and antique very marble. On bracket feet and antique vert marble base the clock is surmounted by a superb patinated bronze sculpture of a seated Cupid with gilt bronze bow and quiver...
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1830s French Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
19th Century French Empire Clock
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19th Century finely chased and cast dore bronze mantle clock. Porcelain dial in excellent condition. Signed "Millet." Original pendulum. Don't have original key, but can have one made.
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19th Century French Empire Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
19th Century Louis XVI Style Ormolu Bronze Clockset
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
A refined Louis XVI style mantel clock with matching candelabras. The case is made of gilt brass and bronze ormolu casted ornaments, the dial is enameled iron. Resting on a white marble base. Richly embellished with neoclassical ornaments, flower garlands and ribbons. The clock is made in France 1870-1880. The clock is in good condition, it have original gilding. On a wooden carved gilded pedestal. The clockwork have a 8-day movement and strikes every half our on a bronze silver plated bell...
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1870s French Louis XVI Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Carrara Marble, Bronze, Enamel
Fine French Empire period mantel clock by Lépine.
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A wonderfully impressive and enchanting French Empire period mantel clock by Jean-Antoine Lépine (1720-1814), clockmaker to both King Louis XV and Louis XVI
Depicting a pair of Leop...
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Late 18th Century French Empire Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
French Art Deco Marble with Bronze Details Clock Set
Located in Long Island City, NY
French Art Deco marble three-piece clock set with intricate bronze details. Centerpiece with a pair of matching decorative end pieces in great condition with modest wear commensurate...
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Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
French 19th Century Louis XVI Gilded Bronze and Marble Mantel Clock
Located in Vilnius, LT
Antique 19th century French gilded bronze and white marble mantel clock of the period Louis XVI.
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Enamel
Rare Louis XVI Period Portico Clock by Jacques-Claude-martin Rocquet
Located in Paris, FR
Rare Louis XVI period portico clock in white marble and gilded and chiseled bronzes with antique-inspired decoration. This important Neo-classical clock of the late 18th century is c...
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18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Carrara Marble, Bronze
Early 19th Century Austrian Biedermeier Library Walnut Alabaster Mantle Clock
Located in Berlin, DE
Early 19th century Austrian Biedermeier library walnut alabaster mantle clock
Standing on a rectangular wooden base with concave corners, six sm...
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Early 19th Century Austrian Biedermeier Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Bras En L'air French Mantel Clock
Located in New Orleans, LA
This bras en l'air, or "arms in the air," French mantel clock demonstrates the neoclassical luxury of the Second Empire style. The focal point of the clock is a large doré bronze mai...
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19th Century French Empire Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Carrara Marble, Bronze
French 19th Century Louis XVI Gilded Bronze and Marble Mantel Clock
Located in Vilnius, LT
Antique 19th century French Louis XVI style gilded bronze and white marble mantel clock.
The circular case is decorated with a floral elements and surmounted by the figures of Venus...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
French Charles X Period Mantel Clock in Ormolu and Patinated Bronze
Located in London, GB
A very smart and stylish antique French Charles X period mantel clock in ormolu and patinated bronze with original ormolu throughout and surmounted by a fine ormolu urn on a stepped ...
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1820s French Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
19th Century Bronze Mantel Clock Paul and Virginia by Charles Cumberworth
Located in Marseille, FR
Rare and spectacular bronze mantel clock taking up the theme of the most famous 18th century novel "Paul and Virginia" written by Henri Bernardin de Saint Pierre and powerfully describes the feelings of love and the nostalgia of paradise lost. The model presented here is a very rare model, it represents a passage from the book, "Le passage du torrent", we find no trace of this model only in Pierre Kjellberg's book "Les Bronzes du XIXème siècle;" Metman points out Le passage du torrent, first cast by Boyer and also edited by SUSSE"
There are two Creole slaves as double patina chandeliers...
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Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Griotte Marble, Bronze
French Gilt Bronze and Champlevé Enamel Clock Set, Japy Freres, circa 1870
By Japy Frères
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
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...
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1870s French Renaissance Revival Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Austrian Art Deco Bronze Sculpture Mantel Clock by Anton Grath circa 1925
By Anton Grath
Located in Shippensburg, PA
ART DECO FIGURAL MANTEL CLOCK
Anton Grath (Austrian, b. 1881) patinated and burnished bronze over marble signed "Anton Grath" and foundry marking monogrammed "HW" within an "H" to right side of base Circa 1925
Item # 203AXG01W
A powerful figural clock of a partially nude male and female raising offerings of a laurel wreath and an empty vessel, they face one another before the bold architectural display of the clock flanked by coned finials. They are loosely symmetrical in garb, the burnished bronze capes flowing gently around and before them.
The circular face of the clock rests on a pair of sleeping lions over a textured bronze rectangular plinth with a burnished bronze bas-relief of a young woman lying in the grasses of a setting sun raised on a variated marble base. This model was acquired formerly at the Sotheby's, New York sale on April 14th 2008, [Sale N08427, lot 155, achieved $ 5,000 USD] and the patina was enhanced at some point in the last fourteen years to include the parcel-burnished highlights in the figures. The right side of the base includes the signature and a monogrammed foundry mark (HW within an H). A very fine period example.
Artist Listings & Bibliography:
*E. Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Vol. VI, Gründ, 2006, p. 592-593
*The Dictionary of Western Sculptors in Bronze, Mackay, Baron, 1977, p. 166
*Art Bronzes...
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20th Century German Art Deco Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Mantel Clock 19th Century Empire
Located in Warsaw, PL
Figural mantel clock signed “Al. dre Destape Palais Royal”
The bronze figural mantel clock depicting one of the mythical heroes - Orpheus originates from the Empire period. The cloc...
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Early 19th Century French Empire Antique 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...
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19th Century French Rococo Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Stone, Bronze
“Horatius & the Fall of Rome” French Empire Antique Bronze Mantel Clock
Located in Shippensburg, PA
FRENCH RESTAURATION ORMOLU & PATINATED BRONZE FIGURAL MANTEL CLOCK OF ROMAN PHILOSOPHER HORATIUS
Paris, circa 1820; silk-suspension movement signed "Etablissement Barbot de Paris"
Item # 010CVX22A
An incredibly fine Restauration period clock, it depicts a seated figure of the important Roman philosopher Horatius holding a scroll in his right hand while waving his hand over the results of war: ruins of a column and remains of an architectural mural...
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19th Century French Empire Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
A Rare and Exquisite French Ormolu and Porcelain Clock, attributed to Deniere
Located in New York, NY
A Rare and Exquisite French Ormolu Bronze and Porcelain Clock, attributed to Jean Francois Deniere,
circa 1810.
This large and elaborate clock is made of the finest quality ormolu and porcelain during the period. Of rectangular form, with porcelain and bronze columns painted with flowers and griffins, this clock would make a statement in any room.
To a clock collector, this clock is a true masterpiece! Similar clocks like this, by Deniere, are in prestigious museums and collections worldwide, including the Frick Collection and the Royal Collection Trust.
21.5" high x 12" wide x 6" deep
**For a similar clock see Christies New York, 21 November 2008, Lot # 139, sold for $50,000.
Very good condition with no damages. All original parts. Clock is not running.
More photos available upon request.
Jean-François Deninger, called Denière, was one of the most illustrious bronziers of the first half of the 19th century. Appointed Envoy in Constantinople around 1796, the bronzier Denière entered into partnership with François Mathelin in 1797. They founded a prosperous operation and their atelier had over 200 workers during the Empire period - a number that subsequently doubled during the reign of Louis-Philippe. Fournisseur to the duchesse de Berry and Louis-Philippe, Denière also worked for the duke of Hamilton, Ferdinand VII of Spain, William II of Hesse, William II of Holland, Tsar Alexander II of Russia, and other heads of state. In 1817-1818 Denière furnished some of the bronze work for the redecoration of the White House in Washington. He furthermore produced the mounts for the cradle of the duc de Bordeaux in 1820 and the bronzes for Charles X's coronation coach...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Important Trim in White Marble and Gilt Bronze, 19th Century
Located in VERSAILLES, FR
Spectacular trim consisting of a clock and its candelabras decorated with Cupid sits on a tree stump.
In Roman mythology, Cupid, son of Venus and Mars, is the god of love. The origi...
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1860s French Napoleon III Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Empire Period Gilt Bronze Lyre-Clock with a Bust of Homer
Located in Paris, FR
Important clock-regulator entirely realized in gilded bronze of the Empire period. It has a lyre shape with seven strings and a bust of Homer crowned ...
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Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
French, Napoleon III Bronze and Marble Clock Garniture, C. 1880
Located in New Orleans, LA
An outstanding Antique French Napoleon III three piece bronze and marble clock garniture set, c. 1880, with a bronze surmount of a putto playing a bagpipe, over a drum clock...
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Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Brass, Bronze
French 19th Century Clockset
Located in Los Angeles, CA
French 19th century clockset with dore bronze and marble.
Urns measure to be 12" H x 3.25" D.
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19th Century French Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Antique Mantel Clock from around 1850, France, Fire-Gilded
Located in Berlin, DE
Antique mantel clock from around 1850, France, fire-gilded.
Fire-gilt and partially black-brown patinated bronze. Figurative attachment in the form of a poet leaning against a tre...
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1850s French Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Mantel Clock 19th Century Styl Empire by Hartmann À Paris
Located in Warsaw, PL
The clock is in excellent and perfect working condition. In addition, it was recently cleaned and serviced by a professional clockmaker who specializes in maintaining museums.
The e...
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Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Antique Fireplace Mantel Clock, France, circa 1900
Located in Chorzów, PL
Antique fireplace clock from the turn of the century.
Dimensions: height 41 cm / width 30 cm / depth 14 cm.
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Early 1900s French Louis XVI Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Early 19th Century French Bronze and Ormolu 8 Day Mantle Clock
Located in London, GB
An early 19th Century French bronze & ormolu 8-Day striking Clock with silver dial (stamped Douon on inner plate and one spring dated 1824) mounted in unusual bronze & ormolu case depicting centurion slaying dragon...
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19th Century French Regency Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
19th Century Louis Philippe French Mantel Clock, 1830s
By C. Detouche
Located in Roma, RM
Fantastic and important mantel clock, signed C. Detouche Bte, 160 Rue. St Martin. Paris, France, circa 1830-1835.
Constantin-Louis Detouche (1810-1889) born in Paris on 10th Octob...
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1830s French Louis Philippe Antique Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Vintage, New and Antique Mantel Clocks
Personal time-telling devices may have migrated from our pockets to our wrists and finally onto our phones, but despite the convenience of a handheld digital timekeeper, nothing can beat well-made vintage, new and antique mantel clocks.
Invented by clockmakers in France and popularized in the 18th and 19th centuries, these practical yet ornate pieces were typically displayed on top of fireplaces or desks. While the most common mantel clocks were created in the traditional tambour style, which features a wide base that flares into an upright drum- or camelback-shaped case, modern clockmakers and furniture designers have experimented with their own ideas for these decorative objects over the years, introducing different forms and working with unconventional materials. A collection of whimsical, monochromatic handmade mantel clocks crafted by Dutch designer Kiki van Eijk, called Floating Frames, for example, features minimalist frames of anodized wire and ceramic clockfaces.
When shopping for an antique, vintage or new mantel clock, don’t be afraid to branch out. Wood mantel clocks of any era will bring a classic, elegant allure to the shelving in your living room or the bookcase in your bedroom, while Empire-style mantel clocks will comparatively boast eye-catching gilt bronze and pronounced sculptural attributes. Some Art Deco mantel clocks will feature an integration of marble or glass and will likely be marked by the decorative embellishments associated with that particular furniture style.
There’s just something about cool clocks, right? Spend your time with an extraordinary collection of mantel clocks on 1stDibs today.
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