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French Louis XVI style mantel clock, 19th Century
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality French gilded ormolu and white marble, 19th Century Louis XVI style mantel clock, with a classical maiden resting, a bird cage at her feet, a cherub holding a bow and ...
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19th Century Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Gilt Bronze and Marble Garniture, Clock Signed Raingo Fres, France, 19th Century
By Raingo Frères
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Gilt bronze and marble three piece clock garniture. Clock signed Raingo Fres. France, 19th century.
Clock works.
Clock dimensions: 71 cm height, 46 cm ...
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Late 19th Century Neoclassical Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
French Louis XV Ormolu Clock of Hannibal and Scipio Signed Amant
Located in London, GB
Are antique French Louis XV ormolu mantel clock of Hannibal and Scipio signed Amant. This rare and unusual clock, in extremely fine condition an...
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1770s Louis XVI Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
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 Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Chinoiserie Style Gilt-Bronze and Enamel Figural Clock
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A rare Chinoiserie style gilt-bronze and enamel figural clock.
This elegant and sophisticated clock has a finely chiselled gilt-bronze case with gold and enamel highlights. It dep...
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19th Century Chinoiserie Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
Art Deco Large Chrome Mantle Clock by Ferranti, England, c1930
Located in Devon, England
Superbly stylish large chrome mantle clock by the English clock makers, Ferranti. Dating to the 1930's this electrical clock is an absolute gem and in remarkable condition with the c...
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Mid-20th Century Art Deco European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Chrome
Antique Wooden Mantel Clock with Eagle, Swiss 1900
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Antique Wooden Mantel Clock with Eagle, Swiss 1900
A great carved linden wood mantel clock with a very detailled carved eagle sitting on a rock with foliage decorations. The porcelaine clockface has handpainted numerals, handcarved in Switzerland - Brienz ca. 1900. The clockwork was overworked by a clockmaker and is in working order. It comes with original key.
Measures:
Width 14.17" (36.0cm)
Height 24.8" (63.0cm)
Depth 5.12" (13.0cm)
Soberly considered mantel clocks are small pendulum clocks...
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Late 19th Century Black Forest Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Wood
Large Empire Period Gilt Bronze Mantel Clock
Located in London, GB
Large Empire period gilt bronze mantel clock
French, early 19th Century
Measures: Height 52cm, width 28cm, depth 17.5cm
This superb Empi...
Category
Early 19th Century Empire Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
Art Deco Bronze & Glass Clock by Kienzle, Circa 1935, Germany
By Kienzle Clocks
Located in Devon, England
Superbly stylish is this wonderful Art Deco 8 day clock by Kienzel. Beautiful bluey grey colored glass and brass desk timepiece is typical of the 1930s.
The bronze case is highly po...
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Mid-20th Century Art Deco European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Napoleon III Period Neoclassical Style Three-Piece Clock Set
Located in London, GB
Napoleon III Period neoclassical style three-piece clock set.
French, 19th century
Dimensions: Height 58cm, width 47cm, depth 19cm
Comprised of a mantel clock and two flanking c...
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19th Century Napoleon III Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Malachite, Enamel, Ormolu
Early 19th Century Empire Ormolu-Mounted Bronze and Marble Mantel Clock
By Pierre-Victor Ledure
Located in New York, NY
A fine quality empire ormolu-mounted patinated bronze and rouge royale marble mantel clock.
The patinated bronze figures depicting cupid and psyche. Attributed to Pierre-Victor Ledure...
Category
Early 19th Century Empire Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Ormolu, Bronze
Three Piece Alabaster Clock Garniture in the Form of a Neo-Gothic Cathedral
Located in London, GB
This exquisite three-piece alabaster clock garniture consists of a central clock with two flanking vases. The central clock is designed to resemble the shape of a neo-Gothic cathedra...
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19th Century Gothic Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Alabaster, Ormolu
A French Louis XVI Style Ormolu-Mounted White Marble Clock by Denière
By Festeau Le Jeune, Maison Deniere
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A Louis XVI Style Ormolu-Mounted White Marble Clock
In the form of a fluted column, the circular enamel dial with Arabic chapters and pierced lyre and fleur-de-lys shaped giltmetal ...
Category
1860s Louis XVI Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
$4,418 Sale Price
35% Off
Antique Gothic Revival Porcelain Clock by Dagoty & Honoré
By Dagoty
Located in London, GB
Antique Gothic Revival porcelain clock by Dagoty & Honoré
French, c. 1830
Measures: Height 51cm, width 25.5cm, depth 17cm
This beautiful Gothic Revival style porcelain clock was made by the prestigious French firm Dagoty and Honoré, founded by the esteemed porcelain makers Pierre-Louis Dagoty and Edouard Honoré...
Category
Early 19th Century Gothic Revival Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Porcelain
Fine Quality French Gilt and Patinated Bronze Mantel Clock
Located in New York, NY
A fine quality gilt and patinated bronze library clock surmounted on a white oblong base. Having a gilt bronze eagle finial in full relief above a ...
Category
19th Century Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Louis XVI Style Gilt and Patinated Bronze Clock
Located in Astoria, NY
Louis XVI Style Gilt and Patinated Bronze Clock, the circular painted enamel dial, with strike on bell movement, the cartouche shaped case mounted with a finial, acanthus and laurel ...
Category
Early 20th Century Louis XVI European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
French Figural Gilt Bronze, Patinated Bronze, White Marble 19th Century Clock
Located in Houston, TX
Large scale mantel or tabletop clock in the neoclassic style of a woman reclining and a
Child with a book. The woman is holding a foliate wreath and lo...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
$13,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Fine Quality Napoleon III Style Ormolu Figural Mantel Clock with a Putto
Located in New York, NY
The globe-form clock case surmounted by a putto and flanked by allegorical figures, on a spreading base cast with floral garlands.
Origin: French
Date: 19th century
Dimension: 3...
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19th Century Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
18th Century Carrara Marble and Dore Bronze Mantle Clock, F. Berthoud
By Ferdinand Berthoud
Located in New York, NY
A fabulous and quite important 18th century Louis XVI period Carrara marble and dore bronze mantle clock, signed F. Berthoud, Paris. The body of the clock is exceptionally cast and f...
Category
1780s Louis XVI Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Carrara Marble, Bronze
Lewis F Day, Howell, James & Sons Aesthetic Movement Ebonised & Polychrome Clock
By Howell James & Co., Lewis Foreman Day
Located in London, GB
Lewis Foreman Day, for Howell, James and Sons.
An Aesthetic Movement ebonized and polychrome painted mantle clock with a carved floret to the centre of the arched and turned gallery flanked by turned finials, with a dentil moulding below, and criss cross lattice work to the upper sides, the lower sides with hand painted Aesthetic flowers in planters...
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1880s Aesthetic Movement Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Brass
Trophies of War English Regency Clock by Forrester of Hull
Located in London, GB
A superb, rare English Regency period mantel clock in patinated bronze in the form of the "Trophies of War". Set upon a rectangular base with crested hel...
Category
1810s Regency Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Napoleon III Fire-Gilt Bronze Figural Mantel Clock
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
This beautifully detailed Napoleon III fire-gilt bronze figural mantel clock is from France, circa 1860-1880. Featuring a graceful maiden in classical dress seated upon a boulder. Th...
Category
19th Century Napoleon III Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
19th Century French Gilt Bronze and Porcelain Mantel Clock and Garniture
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
19th century French gilt bronze and porcelain mantel clock and garniture.
Three-piece French garniture set with hand painted and artist signed porcelain, depicting Indian scenes with elephants and landscapes. The clock and urns come with their original velvet covered plinths. The movement is signed S. Marti & Cie Medaille de Bronze...
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19th Century Antique European Mantel Clocks
Edwardian Mantel Clock with Chinoiserie Decoration
Located in Norwich, GB
Edwardian mantel clock in a break arch case with raised chinoiserie decoration on a red ground, barley twist columns to either side of the case and resting on pad feet.
Brass bezel w...
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Early 1900s Edwardian Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Fruitwood
Louis XVI Miniature Ormolu Mantle Clock of a Lion by Philippe Pajot
Located in London, GB
A rare 18th century to early 19th century Louis XVI miniature ormolu mantle or table clock depicting a lion. The piece is surprising heavy for such a small clock, which is always a s...
Category
1780s Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
Antique Patinated Bronze and Onyx Mantel Clock by Mercié and Barbedienne
By Ferdinand Barbedienne, Antonin Mercie
Located in London, GB
Antique patinated bronze and onyx mantel clock by Mercié and Barbedienne
French, Late 19th Century
Height 113cm, width 58cm, depth 40cm
Two renowned French makers, Antonin Mercié (...
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Late 19th Century Neoclassical Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Onyx, Bronze, Ormolu
Empire Clock in representing a Horse and a Dog in Gilt Bronze, 19th Century
Located in NICE, FR
Restoration-period bronze clock with brown and gilded patina depicting a horse playing with a small dog.
Beautiful mercury gilding, the alternating patinas give a nice balance to th...
Category
19th Century Empire Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Napoleon III Ormolu & Porcelain Mounted Clock
Located in Astoria, NY
Napoleon III Ormolu and Porcelain Mounted Clock, circa 1860, the white enamel dial with Turkish numerals, the movement strike on bell, surmounted by an urn of flowers, flanked by cor...
Category
Mid-18th Century Napoleon III Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
19th Century French Ormolu Bronze Mantel Clock Depicting Madonna with Cross
Located in New York, US
Our large French gilt and patinated bronze mantel clock dating from the second quarter of the nineteenth century features the finest casting and gilded details. It depicts Mary sea...
Category
Early 19th Century Neoclassical Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Emile Loiseau, Horse Clock, 19th Century
Located in MARSEILLE, FR
Black marble clock, topped with a spelter horse with a brown bronze-style patina, signed Emile Loiseau
Some chips on the marble and on the keyhole on th...
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Late 19th Century Napoleon III Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Spelter
Art Deco Clock with Lamp - Water Carrier Sculpture / Illuminated Nude with Vase
Located in Hoddesdon, GB
A spectacular Art Deco illuminated clock featuring a sculpture of the water carrier / Nude with Vase.
The exquisite geometric design of the clock c...
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1830s Art Deco Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Alabaster, Marble, Spelter
Antique French Gilt Bronze and Lapis Lazuli Mantel Clock after Falconet
By Étienne Maurice Falconet
Located in London, GB
French sculptor Etienne-Maurice Falconet (1716-1791) is the inspiration for this beautiful, sumptuous mantel clock. His clock, crafted in the late 18th Century and now on display at the Louvre Museum, caused such a stir when it was exhibited over 100 years later, at the Great Exhibition in Paris in 1900 that one reviewer claimed that it "attracted so much admiration from the crowds gathered around that the pressure was sufficient at times to endanger its safety."
As well as this famed 'Three Graces...
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19th Century Louis XVI Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Lapis Lazuli, Ormolu, Bronze
Sevres Clock Set (Garniture)
By Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Located in Bronx, NY
This vintage decorative garniture set is beautifully designed with its original gold gilt over wonderful sculpted bronze embellishments. Also, the gilt bronze clock body & the matchi...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
$4,500 / set
World War 2 / WWII Era Wooden Airplane Propeller Folk Art Mantel Clock
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This wooden Folk Art made propeller clock is presumed to have originated in England and fashioned into a mantel clock in North America in circa 1960. T...
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Mid-20th Century Folk Art European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Wood
French Art Deco Green Marble Clock
By Hour Lavigne
Located in Northampton, GB
Just Hour Lavigne Movement
From our Accessories collection, we are delighted to offer this French Art Deco Green Marble Clock. The clock finished in solid green and black marble fea...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Metal, Brass
Vintage Swiss Mantel Alarm Clock
Located in Norwich, GB
Vintage mantel clock resting within a gilded strut frame supphandsorting a circular dial surrounded by rope decoration.
Silvered dial with o...
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1970s Other Vintage European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Brass
Bavarian Bronze Clock Capodimonte Porcelain by Tiche, 20th Century
By Johann Joachim Kaendler, Tiche, Porcelaine d'arte Milano
Located in Lisbon, PT
A baronette bronze clock in Capodimonte style porcelain by Tiche.
A golden metal and blue porcelain piece ornate with a traditional Bavarian theme, decorated with vibrant color pale...
Category
20th Century Baroque European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Brass, Enamel, Bronze
$2,618 Sale Price
20% Off
French Louis XVI Cupid Mantel Clock
Located in Queens, NY
French Louis XVI-style (19th Century) bronze dore and white marble oval shaped mantel clock with 2 cupids reading book at top. (Not working)
Category
19th Century Louis XVI Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Black Forest Mantle Clock
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Black Forest carved mantle clock with red stag finial. The clock movement is marked "Medaille Dargent Vincenti, 1855". A large red stag with ornate foliage base with an overall dark ...
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Late 19th Century Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Wood
19th Century French Louis XVI Ormolu Mantel Clock by Lemerle-Charpentier & Cie.
By Lemerle-Charpentier & Cie
Located in North Miami, FL
Late 19th century french Louis XVI ormolu gilt bronze mantel clock by Lemerle-Charpentier & Cie.
By: Lemerle-Charpentier & Cie.
Materi...
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Late 19th Century Louis XVI Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Ormolu, Metal, Bronze
Antique 18th Century Boulle Bracket Clock by Brezagez and Marchand
By Marchand
Located in London, GB
Antique 18th century Boulle bracket clock by Brezagez and Marchand
French, circa 1740
Measures: Clock: Height 87cm, width 47cm, depth 21cm
Bracket: Height 40cm, width 53cm, depth 24cm
Total: Height 127cm
This beautiful 18th century French bracket clock...
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18th Century Louis XV Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Brass, Enamel, Ormolu
Antique Arts & Crafts Successionist Mantle Clock - Stickley era - W7025
Located in Shamokin Dam, PA
This is an antique Arts & Crafts Secessionist Mantle Clock c. 1899. In art history, secession refers to a historic break between a group of avant-garde artists and conservative Europ...
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Late 19th Century Jugendstil Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze, Iron
19th Century Neoclassical Gilded Bronze and White Marble Mantel Clock Set
Located in Miami, FL
A fine 19th Century French Neoclassical White Marble and Gilded Bronze Mantel Clock Set with its original and exceptional movement. Bears the makers mark, Finot a Versailles. The dial supporting a reclining bronze classical muse on a rectangular white Carrara marble base decorated by a row of gilt bronze beads, the set rests on four feet. The cross in the hand of the bronze muse can be removed (see photos).
This 19th Century figurative clock is very decorative, interesting for its technicality of the dial and provenance. The bronze feminine muse and its shape has a perfect patina and is a remarkable conversational piece.
The garniture set are a pair of fine neoclassical bronze vases with brown and golden patina that rest on white Carrara marble embellished with gilt bronze figural handles...
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19th Century Napoleon III Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Carrara Marble, Bronze
$4,600 Sale Price
50% Off
French Empire Ormolu Figural Mantel Clock
Located in New York, NY
The enamel dial signed 'GALLE RUE VIVIENNE A PARIS’
Movement: Claude Galle (1759-1815)
Origin: French
Date: 19th century
Size: Height 14 x 12 x 4 3/4 inches
Claude Galle ...
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19th Century Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Copy - 19th Century Meissen clock depicting the four seasons.
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A fine quality late 19th Century German, Meissen porcelain clock on stand, having wonderful bold traditional colours, the figures representing the four seasons. The clock striking on...
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Mid-19th Century Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Porcelain
Fine Antique 19th Century French Rococo Gilded 8 Day Clock Sevres Porcelain 1830
Located in Portland, OR
A fine antique French eight day mantle clock, gilded and fitted with Sevres porcelain plaques, circa 1830.
An early French silk suspension clock, with an eight day time and strike movement, gently sounding the hours and half hour on a bell. The clock is housed in an extravagant gilded gesso Rococo style case and standing on an integral plinth. The clock with a silvered dial having a cuff of engine turned decoration around the center and black Roman numerals to the outside of the dial and the retailer's name "Carl Muller in Berlin" to the center. The base of the clock is fitted with a round hand-painted floral 'Sevres' porcelain plaque, the clock plinth is fitted with a rectangular 'Sevres' plaque, hand-painted with a pastoral scene with a young courting couple and grazing sheep & goats.
The clock has just been professionally overhauled and cleaned, it runs and keeps good time, the gilded case and silvered dial and porcelain plaques are in remarkable condition, a very fine clock...
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1830s Rococo Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Gold Leaf
$2,396 Sale Price
20% Off
French Louis XVI Style Napoleon III Bronze Mounted Malachite Mantel Clock
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This mantel clock depicts a mythological group scene in bronze of figures representing a cupid with a torch in his right hand in clouds made of scrolls and foliage flirting with a se...
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Late 19th Century Louis XVI Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Malachite, Bronze
$11,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Italian Ornate Mantel Clock with Two Figural Cherub Candelabras - Garniture Set
By Hermle
Located in Chicago, IL
Vintage Italian Roman Style Ornate Mantel Clock with Two Figural Cherub Candelabras - Garniture Set
The Vintage Italian Roman Style Ornate Mantel ...
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Mid-20th Century Classical Roman European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Brass
Porcelain Clock in the Louis XV Style by Jacob Petit
By Jacob Petit
Located in London, GB
This antique porcelain mantel clock demonstrates the 19th century nostalgia for the delicately elegant decorative arts under King Louis XV, also known as the Rococo style.
Crafted by celebrated porcelain artist Jacob Petit, this exquisite clock is particularly notable for the way in which the porcelain has been shaped so as to give the clock such a whimsically free-spirited, scrolling shape. The clock is formed as a clock case upon a lower base, which are both decorated as a though a singular piece with green glaze on a white ground, accented with painted floral panels and extensive gilt highlights all over.
The clock case, which is particularly exuberant in design, features a central, circular clock dial. The white enamelled dial is bordered with beaded ormolu, and features black Roman numerals and the inscription 'Scherer'- the name of the 19th century Parisian clock...
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19th Century Rococo Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Porcelain
Louis XVI Period Gilt Bronze Mounted Malachite Clock
Located in London, GB
Louis XVI period gilt bronze mounted malachite clock
French, late 18th century
Measures: Height 50cm, width 34.5cm, depth 13.5cm
This fine mantel clock was produced during the e...
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Late 18th Century Louis XVI Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Malachite, Ormolu, Bronze
19th Century Charles X Clock with a Statue of a Romantic Young Nobleman.
Located in NICE, FR
We are delighted to present you with this stunning 19th century clock featuring a seated figure of a young nobleman atop the clock case in gilt bronze in the style of Louis-Phillipe/...
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19th Century Charles X Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
19th Century French White Marble and Gilt Bronze Clock in the Louis XVI Style
Located in London, GB
An Impressive Marble and Gilt Bronze Mantel Clock
In the Louis XVI Manner
Constructed from a marble platform with a bronze group above; all confidentl...
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19th Century Louis XVI Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Carrara Marble, Ormolu
English Regency Mahogany Bracket Clock by Moore of Ipswich
Located in London, GB
A fine English Regency brass inlaid mahogany striking bracket clock. Of good color and restrained decoration. Dial signed Moore of Ipswich. Double fusee movement with anchor escapement.
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1810s Regency Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
A Large 19th Century French Ormolu Mantle Clock In The Rococo Style
Located in Dublin, IE
A fine 19th century and substantial ormolu clock, of Rococo balloon form, sweeping acanthus swags, scrolls and floral flourishes, which is topped by classical cornucopias. The clock ...
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19th Century Rococo Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
Mantel Clock 19th Century Styl Empire by Ferdinand Berthoud À Paris
Located in Warsaw, PL
Ormolu bronze mantel clock flanked by a troubadour and musical instruments, signed 'Ferdinand Berthoud a Paris'.
The end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century was a crucial time in which new technological advances helped to make watches more accurate and more portable. During the 1790s, the production of gilded bronze increased considerably as working conditions improved. The freedom of trade initiated by the French Revolution allowed many casters to develop large factories. The new factory environment gave them a chance to execute all stages of bronze work including drawing, casting, gilding, assembly, and trade of art objects. While the bronzers took creative liberty in creating all kinds of clocks in contrast to the noble and rigorous structure carried by the movement of neoclassicism. Under the reign of Empire, the case designs started gradually to develop away from a proportionate and strict classicism towards a baroque style and revival style. The rediscovery of medieval civilization was one of the intellectual curiosities of the beginning of the 19th century, with much input from the Ancien Régime and its institutions, rites and the medieval churches in which family ceremonies occurred.
This early nineteenth-century figural mantel clock is surmounted by a medieval musician. To be more precise, it is a french troubadour. Troubadours were known for composing and performing lyric poetry for the nobility back during medieval times. The clock is featuring a chiselled bronze troubadour, dressed in medieval fashion while holding a flute, playing a tune from sheet music called "Du Troubadour" that is resting on top of the rectangular clock case. In addition to that, the clock features a gilt bronze lute or vielle resting on a small stool on the opposite side of the clock’s case. The white enamel dial features the inscription Berthoud and is underlined by a bronze entourage chiselled with palmette motif, plus encompassed by c-scrolls and wreaths. The original hands are in blued steel and encircled by Roman numerals indicating hour next to Arabic numerals indicating minutes.
The small details that adorn the hexagonal plinth are reliefs, depicting two water fountains or basins on both sides with a lyre in between. The sculpted image of a lyre raised above the background features also foliage garlands tied on top with ribbons. The clock rests on seven spinning feet.
The clock was made in the well-known workshop of the Berthoud’s family that was recognized for their excellent work by the King.
Berthoud Clockmakers History.
Ferdinand Berthoud was a horologist and author of extensive treatises on timekeeping as well as a Swiss clockmaker serving the king of France, that produced many marine clocks, including a weight-driven version that inspired the first American sea-going clock. He was born in Plancemont, Switzerland, the son of an architect and judiciary. In 1741 he began a three-year apprenticeship as a clockmaker under his brother, Jean-Henri. He made his first marine chronometer in 1754 (sent for trial in 1761) and in 1764 was appointed a member of the Royal Society, London and Horloger Mécanicien de Sa Majesté et de la Marine ayant l'inspection de la construction des Horloges Marines. In 1769, Ferdinand Berthoud sent for his nephew Pierre-Louis Berthoud (1754–1813), commonly known as Louis Berthoud, a talented young watchmaker and clockmaker, inviting him to come to Paris from Couvet, Switzerland, to pursue his apprenticeship. Louis helped Ferdinand manufacture and repair the sea clocks...
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Late 18th Century Louis XVI Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Napoleon III Fireplace Set with Bronze Greek Gods and Black Marble
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Beautiful antique fireplace set consisting of a clock and a pair of cassolettes. The black marble clock rests on lions' feet and is surmounted by a bronze engraved Medici vase with eight faces of Greek...
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Mid-19th Century Napoleon III Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Exquisite 19th Century Mantel Clock – Planchon Paris
Located in Stahnsdorf, DE
Exquisite 19th Century Mantel Clock – Planchon Paris
This exceptional mantel clock, crafted by the renowned Planchon manufactory in Paris during the second half of the 19th century,...
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1890s Napoleon III Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Charles X Gilt Bronze Figural Clock, ca. 1830
Located in Astoria, NY
Charles X Gilt Bronze Figural Clock, circa 1830, depicting Marguerite, Queen of France, standing beside circular enamel dial, the movement strike on bell, signed "Rollet Bould St. De...
Category
Early 19th Century Charles X Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Sèvres Style Ormolu-Mounted Porcelain Figural Clockset
Located in New York, NY
A fine quality 19th century Sèvres ormolu-mounted porcelain clockset.
Origin: French
Date: 19th century
Dimension: Clock: 25 in high; Urns: 24 in high.
Category
19th Century Antique European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu, Bronze
Art-Deco Mantel Clock in Marble and with a Wolf Statue in Bronze Patina
Located in NICE, FR
This clock is a fine example of early 20th-century design, combining the rich materials and craftsmanship of traditional sculpture with the sleek, modernist lines of Art Deco. It wou...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco European Mantel Clocks
Materials
Onyx, Marble, Bronze
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