Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 6

French Ormolu and Blue Porcelain Four Seasons Mantel Clock

$6,771.12
£5,000
€5,859.84
CA$9,337.66
A$10,490.45
CHF 5,481.27
MX$128,040.82
NOK 69,596.18
SEK 65,510.14
DKK 43,728.32

About the Item

French ormolu and blue porcelain mantel clock. The blue porcelain with blue ground and decorated with baskets of flowers, fruit and doves, cherubs. A clock of the very highest quality, a beautiful example of the best of mid-19th century craftmanship. Still set on its original giltwood and gesso base. With superb original ormolu perfect deep blue porcelain. The quality of the mounts is of the very best. A cherub sits atop of the clock, playing a lyre, whilst to the centre of the clock case, are four cherubs, representing the Four seasons, with two doves between them. The white enamel dial, with roman numerals and breguet half-moon hands, is signed on the dial C.J. Klaftenberger, 157 Regent Street. Klaftenberger is recorded as working in Regent Street, London from 1863 until, circa 1885. He also worked in Paris in the late 19th century. The movement is an 8 day, steel suspension, striking the halfs and hours. The back of the movement is numbered 720, and stamped with the Marti et Cie, medaille de bronze stamp, and further stamped P.L. FRE, likely for the celebrated makers Levy Freres a Paris. Levy's cases are instantly recognizable because of the petit form of the case and figures used together with almost always the same porcelain factory.
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 15 in (38.1 cm)Width: 10 in (25.4 cm)Depth: 6 in (15.24 cm)
  • Style:
    Napoleon III (Of the Period)
  • Materials and Techniques:
  • Place of Origin:
  • Period:
  • Date of Manufacture:
    1870
  • Condition:
  • Seller Location:
    London, GB
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU2015316232252

More From This Seller

View All
French Napoleon III blue porcelain and ormolu clock
Located in London, GB
A very fine & attractive French porcelain & gilt bronze mantle clock. A superb dial & very finely painted urn surmounting the clock. To each side of the dial further painted panels. ...
Category

Antique 1880s French Mantel Clocks

Materials

Bronze

French blue celeste porcelain and ormolu mantel clock
Located in London, GB
French blue celeste porcelain and ormolu mantel clock. Very good condition with original ormolu and no damage to the porcelain panels, some of which have neo-classical influence. Two...
Category

Antique 1870s French Mantel Clocks

Materials

Bronze

French, rare Champleve enamel and ormolu mantel clock
Located in London, GB
French antique, rare Champleve enamel and ormolu mantel clock. A very rare model with two good figures of cupids holding up the platform on which the clock face rests and the swags a...
Category

Antique 1890s French Mantel Clocks

Materials

Enamel, Ormolu

French porcelain and ormolu mantel clock with silver highlights mantel clock
Located in London, GB
French porcelain and ormolu mantel clock with silver highlights mantel clock. A superb Napoleon III clock in the Louis XVIth style. The original fire/mercury gilt ormolu in very good...
Category

Antique 1860s French Mantel Clocks

Materials

Bronze

French Porcelain and Ormolu Mantel Clock Stamped in Bronze H. Picard
By Henri Picard
Located in London, GB
French Ormolu and porcelain mantel clock of Classical design dating from the mid-19th century stamped in the mint and original Ormolu H. Picard. Numbered in the bronze, 1297. The original ormolu is in quite pristine and totally original condition. The case inset with painted porcelain panels with fruit and floral decoration in the classical style. The clock surmounted by a Bacchanalian mask and two handled vase with grapes, standing on six vase shaped feet on a velvet plinth...
Category

Antique 1850s French Napoleon III Mantel Clocks

Materials

Ormolu

French Empire Clock in Ormolu and Patinated Bronze Signed Revel Rue De Richelieu
Located in London, GB
French Empire period ormolu and patinated bronze mantel clock representing Ceres. The crowning of Ceres is a stunning clock of very fine quality and with totally original fire gilded...
Category

Antique Early 1800s French Mantel Clocks

Materials

Bronze, Ormolu

You May Also Like

French Bronze Doré Clock with Sevres Porcelain in Celeste Blue
Located in Houston, TX
Large and exquisite bronze doré clock with large putti holding a Garland of flowers over a porcelain painted mounted above French clock. Sevres porcelain mounted inside.
Category

Antique Mid-19th Century French Mantel Clocks

Materials

Bronze

19th Century French Louis XV Rococo Style Ormolu & Porcelain Mantle Clock
Located in Dublin, IE
A very fine and most attractive 19th century French Louis XV Rococo Style ormolu and porcelain mantle clock, modelled as an urn with floral finial and goat head masks to the sides, o...
Category

Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Mantel Clocks

Materials

Ormolu

Sèvres Style Ormolu Mounted Mantel Clock by Kreisser
Located in London, GB
This gilt bronze mounted mantel clock is formed about a beautiful sky-blue, parcel gilt Sèvres style porcelain vase. The enamel dial is mounted within a gilt bronze drum that is drap...
Category

Antique 1850s French Napoleon III Mantel Clocks

Materials

Ormolu, Bronze

Ornate Gilt Bronze-Mounted Sèvres-Style Blue Ground Mantel Clock, circa 1880
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
An ornate gilt bronze-mounted Sèvres-style blue ground mantel clock. French, circa 1880. An ornate gilt bronze-mounted Sèvres-style blue ground mantel clock, the shaped rectan...
Category

Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Mantel Clocks

Materials

Bronze

19th Century Sevres Style Porcelain Mantel Clock
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality 19th century French gilded ormolu and Sevres style porcelain mantel clock. Having a blue porcelain urn to the top with ormolu swags, scrolling gilded ormolu folia...
Category

Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Mantel Clocks

Materials

Ormolu

Antique French Ormolu and Sevres Porcelain Clock
Located in Belper, Derbyshire
Antique French Ormolu and Sèvres Porcelain Clock ~ French - Circa 1850 ~ ~~ Excellent condition, fully overhauled ~~ A fine and early ormolu ...
Category

Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Mantel Clocks

Materials

Marble, Ormolu