Skip to main content
Video Loading
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 12

Empire Bronze and Sienna Marble Clock with a bust of Apollo Belvedere

$9,000
£6,911.61
€7,920.62
CA$12,669.78
A$14,192.95
CHF 7,382.10
MX$173,124.70
NOK 93,983.92
SEK 88,620.14
DKK 59,117.36

About the Item

A fine example of a French Empire period mantle clock, circa 1830. The rectangular stepped case is made of yellow Sienna marble and is decorated on the top and bottom with patinated bronze. Atop the clock case sits a very well chased patinated bronze head of the Apollo Belvedere after the marble original marble in the Vatican Museum in Rome. The patinated bronze dial with its original glass cover has a central gilded bronze ornament. The eight day movement has a silk string suspension system and rings the hours and halfs on a bell. An identical clock could be seen on a console in the Queen's private dining room in the Netflix series "The Crown"
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 23 in (58.42 cm)Width: 9.25 in (23.5 cm)Depth: 6.5 in (16.51 cm)
  • Style:
    Empire (Of the Period)
  • Materials and Techniques:
  • Place of Origin:
  • Period:
  • Date of Manufacture:
    1830
  • Condition:
  • Seller Location:
    Vancouver, CA
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU4631214615671

More From This Seller

View All
Griotte Marble and Gilt Bronze Clock Mounted by a Classical Female Bronze Bust
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A finely cast gilt bronze clock base mounted with of a classical patinated bronze bust of a maiden after a model by James Pradier. The maiden has her curly haired head turned demurely to one side resting on her bare shoulders, and hands clasped across her partly exposed breasts...
Category

Antique Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Mantel Clocks

Materials

Griotte Marble, Bronze

French Empire Clock Depicting Apollo God of Music and the Arts
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A gilt bronze and griotte marble French Empire clock depicting Apollo Greek God of Music Art Literature and Sciences. The clock shows a a gilt bronze winged figure of Apollo leaning against a griotte marble altar pedestal decorated with gilt bronze garlands. At the center of the pedestal is the clock’s dial and movement. Sitting on top of the pedestal is a standing harp, a mallet and a scroll. The whole is supported by a griotte marble base with a gilt bronze frieze showing a number of frolicking and dancing cupids playing music, drinking wine waving laurel wreaths, carrying a standard and even crowning a bust of Athena. The base sits on two owl feet...
Category

Antique Early 19th Century French Empire Mantel Clocks

Materials

Griotte Marble, Bronze

French Empire Gilt Bronze Allegorical Clock of the Astronomical Sciences
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A fine example of a period French Empire mantle clock in finely chased and gilded bronze made in France in the first quarter of the 19thC. One of the Greek muses with a star atop h...
Category

Antique Early 19th Century French Empire Mantel Clocks

Materials

Bronze

French Empire Gilt and Patinated Bronze Figurative Clock of Cupid and Eurydice
By Claude Galle
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A palatial scale late French Empire mantel (fireplace) clock depicting cupid and Eurydice. The rectangular patinated bronze base sits on four lions paw feet ...
Category

Antique 1820s French Restauration Mantel Clocks

Materials

Bronze

French Empire Gilt Bronze and Marble Clock of Seated Cupid Holding a Rose
By Claude Hemon, Pierre-Victor Ledure
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
Finest quality period French Empire clock depicting a seated winged cupid holding a rose; the case in gilt and patinated bronze. The clock show a gilt cupid...
Category

Antique Early 19th Century French Empire Mantel Clocks

Materials

Marble, Bronze

Allegorical French Empire Gilt Bronze Clock Depicting Earth’s Source of Water
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A gilt bronze French Empire clock depicting an allegory to the earth’s water source. In this clock a classically draped nymph sits atop a rocky outcrop her right foot resting on the ...
Category

Antique Early 19th Century French Empire Mantel Clocks

Materials

Bronze

You May Also Like

French Charles X Clock with Bust of Apollo
Located in London, GB
French Charles X patinated bronze, ormolu and black marble clock with bust of Apollo. Very well proportioned clock with a fine bronze taken from the classical marble of Apollo. The bronze was created by the feted Paris bronziers of Choiselat and Gallien who also made some of the fine bronze clocks of "Jason and the Golden fleece...
Category

Antique 1830s French Mantel Clocks

Materials

Belgian Black Marble, Siena Marble, Bronze, Ormolu

Antique early 19th century French bronze and Sienna marble mantle clock
Located in London, GB
A large and impressive early 19th Century French bronze & Sienna marble Clock surmounted with well-cast bust of Jupiter. The Clock, having 8-day s...
Category

Antique Early 19th Century French Empire Mantel Clocks

Materials

Marble, Bronze

Table Clock, Apollo, Bronze, Marble, Model of Lenoir-Ravrio, Louis-Stanislas
Located in Madrid, ES
Table clock, Apollo. Bronze, marble. Model of Lenoir-Ravrio, Louis-Stanislas(1783-1846). Paris, around 1820. Table clock composed of a staggered rectangular base made of red veined...
Category

Antique Early 19th Century French Neoclassical Mantel Clocks

Materials

Bronze, Other

Large Antique French Empire Style Bronze and Marble Figural Clock
Located in New York, NY
A Large Antique French Empire style figural patinated bronze, gilt bronze and green marble clock depicting two neoclassical figures.
Category

Early 20th Century French Empire Clocks

Materials

Ormolu, Bronze

French Empire Mantel Clock in Ormolu, Patinated Bronze and Marble, Signed Picnot
By Picnot
Located in London, GB
French Empire clock of stunning quality constructed of rouge marble, original fire gilt ormolu and patinated bronze. Set upon four ormolu paw feet to the rouge marble base, rising to...
Category

Antique 1810s French Empire Mantel Clocks

Materials

Marble, Bronze, Ormolu

Antique Early 19th Century Empire Gold Brown Gilt Patinated Bronze Mantel Clock
Located in London, GB
Antique Early 19th Century Empire Gold Brown Gilt Patinated Bronze Mantel Clock French, Early 19th Century Height 54cm, width 52cm, depth 20cm Dating to the early 1800s and desi...
Category

Antique Early 19th Century French Empire Mantel Clocks

Materials

Bronze, Enamel, Ormolu