Known as the “Citizen King,” Louis Philippe reigned from 1830 to the Revolution of 1848 with the support of the upper bourgeoisie. Whereas the monarchs of 18th-century France, including Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI, dictated aesthetics through the decadence of the aristocratic court, Louis Philippe had a more down-to-earth presence. He could be seen walking the streets like an ordinary person, carrying his own umbrella and shaking hands with subjects. Antique Louis Philippe–style furniture reflects a sense of simplicity and the sovereign’s passion for the country’s history, such as his establishment of a Museum of the History of France at Versailles, which had been mostly disused since the French Revolution.
Middle Ages, Gothic and Renaissance design informed a nationalist style that celebrated this heritage, with the hodgepodge of influences becoming prevalent in the homes of the bourgeoisie. Cabinetmakers Guillaume and Jean-Michel Grohé created reproductions of historic pieces for the king as well as royal houses abroad. Louis Philippe commissioned sculptor François Rude to create patriotic monuments that paid tribute to military heroes, while designs for furniture published by Claude-Aimé Chenavard, an ornamentalist who conceived widely loved objects for the Sèvres manufactory, further helped spread a revival of Renaissance style.
The rounded profiles of authentic Louis Philippe tables and chairs were preferred in the apartments rather than palaces being furnished by the affluent middle and upper classes. Ornamentation was minimal on the finely crafted pieces, such as large rectangular mirrors adorned with gold and silver leaf finishes and subdued carvings. The popular Louis Philippe commodes were solidly made with clean lines that showed off the grain of the wood and were often topped with marble surfaces.
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19th Century French Cathedral Clock
Located in High Point, NC
19th century beautifully hand crafter cathedral clock in gilt bronze. This is a magnificent example of 19th century French craftsmanship. There are many beautiful details to this p...
Bronze
A fine large 19th century French fire gilt bronze mantel clock.
Located in Dallas, TX
A fine 19th century Louis Philippe fire gilt large mantel clock. Depicting Louis XV and his wife Marie Leszczynska
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...
Bronze
French Porcelain Mantel Clock by Aubert Klaftenberger, Paris
Located in Norwich, GB
French porcelain clock, beautiful gilded decoration with inset hand painted panels on a light blue background. Enamel dial with finely cut original steel hands signed ‘Aubert Klaften...
Porcelain
French Mantel Clock by Laurent Pons, Ormolu & Marble, Circa 1840
Located in MADRID, ES
Outstanding mid-19th century French mantel clock, dating to circa 1840–1850, from the Louis-Philippe / early Second Empire period, executed in a refined Romantic-Neoclassical style. ...
Carrara Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Antique French Louis Philippe Gold Bronze & Patinated Bronze Clock, Circa 1835's
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French Louis Philippe Style Gold Bronze and Patinated Bronze Mantel Clock, Circa 1835-1845. In running order.
Bronze
Magnificent Gilt Bronze and Marble Clock
Located in Atlanta, GA
A very fine gilt bronze and marble clock featuring a lion. Marble case, ornate face with enameled Roman numerals. France, circa 1880 Dime...
Marble, Bronze
$2,800Sale Price|20% Off
19th Century French Louis Philippe Ebonized Wood and Gilt Bronze Portico Clock
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A large and impressive French Louis Philippe portico clock with complications. The ebonized wood case richly embellished with gilded bronze mounts; the 5? silvered dial with roman nu...
Wood
19th C. Tall Louis Philippe Carved Alabaster and Brass Clock Under Glass Dome
Located in Morristown, NJ
Mid 19th C, France, a highly decorative antique mantel clock enclosed under a glass dome. The clock is made of alabaster, a material often used in neoclassical and empire-style cloc...
Alabaster, Brass
Early and Fine Bronze, Ormolu and Specimen Marble Clock with Cupid
Located in Belper, Derbyshire
A large, fine and exquisite, early antique French clock depicting cupid holding a sharpened golden arrow. It is of stunning quality and fully serviced and tested by our clockmakers. ...
Marble, Ormolu, Bronze
Large Empire Bronze and Ormolu Mantel Clock
Located in London, by appointment only
France, circa 1820-1830. A large-scale early 19th century bronze and gilt bronze mantel clock, the clocks hunting theme, featuring three different scenes. The bronze Diana...
Bronze, Ormolu
Allegorical French Louis Philippe Clock of Clio the Greek Muse of History
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A French Louis Philippe allegorical gilt bronze and marble mantle clock depicting Clio, The Greek Muse of History. The standing figure of a gilded Clio is ...
Bronze
A fine 19th century French Carrera marble and bronze clock set. Fine gilt bronze
Located in Dallas, TX
A fine 19th century French Carrera marble and gilt bronze cherub clock set. Three piece set with a pair of candelabra and a clock. The clock has a patinated bronze cherub holding a r...
Carrara Marble, Bronze
French Ormolu Mantel Clock
Located in Norwich, GB
French ormolu mantel clock standing on a stepped base and resting on turned, chased feet with acanthus leaf decoration below a finely chased...
Ormolu
Louis-Philippe Ormolu Clock, Esmeralda or Dancer with a Tambourine
Located in Paris, FR
Early 19th century Louis-Philippe figural Ormolu clock featuring an oriental woman playing tambourine. She wears a crown of flowers and a rich pearl jewelry displays. The dancer is Esmeralda, a 16 years old Gypsie girl in Victor Hugo's 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Notre-Dame de Paris). The patinated bronze dial is composed of twelve, white enamel cartridges that mark the hours with Roman numerals. This antique desk clock...
Bronze
$9,020Sale Price|20% Off
H 23.23 in W 16.15 in D 7.88 in
Antique 19th Century French Gilded Bronze Mantel Clock
Located in Vilnius, LT
Large antique 19th century French gilded bronze mantel clock surmounted with two angels holding the dial. The enamel dial numerals are hand...
Bronze, Enamel
Late 19th Century French Gilt Metal Mantel Clock
Located in Cheshire, GB
Late 19th-century French gilt metal mantel clock, surmounted with a classical figure, opposing a white enamel Roman numeral drum dial striking on a ...
Metal
French White Marble and Ormolu Pillar Mantel Clock
Located in Norwich, GB
French ormolu and white marble pillar clock with ormolu mounts surmounted by an ornate finial with and standing on four gilded bun feet. The four pillars have fine ormolu mounts and are decorated with ornate chain swags. Enamel dial with Arabic numerals and finely cut original gilded hands. Eight day French striking movement with outside countwheel and starburst pendulum, circa 1870 An exceptionally fine French pillar clock...
Marble, Ormolu
19th Century French mantel clock
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality late 19th Century French gilded ormolu and patinated bronze mantel clock, having a seated cherub holding the rains of a winged dragon pulling a scrolling foliate ...
Ormolu
$12,818Sale Price|55% Off
H 24.02 in W 20.28 in D 9.26 in
Leila and the Giaour Gilded Bronze Clock, France, Circa 1830
Located in PARIS, FR
Dial signed Polti Frères Measures: With base or glass: Height 61 cm (24 in.), width 51,5 cm (20.3 in.), depth 23.5 cm (9,2 in.) Without base: Height 52 cm (20,5 in.), width 42 cm (16.5 in.), depth 12.5 cm (4.9 in.) Important philhellenic clock in burnished and amati gilded bronze, finely chiseled, representing on the terrace a couple elegantly dressed in "the turkish style", and richly decorated with foliage, scrolls and flowers. The feet, decorated with water leaves, rest on an oval wooden base covered with a globe. The theme of the clock comes from The Giaour, a fragment of a Turkish Tale, an English poem by Lord Byron published in may 1813 which tells the thwarted love of a Venetian, the Giaour – term by which the Turks designate infidels and especially Christians – and of Leila, a slave belonging to Hassan’s seraglio, military leader of a Turkish province. The betrayal of Leila discovered, she will be thrown into the sea and her lover will avenge her by killing Hassan, then taking refuge in a monastery. Symbol of prestige and modernity, the decorative clocks are a reflection of the taste of the era of a wealthy bourgeoisie and may be the subject of diplomatic gifts or between individuals. Beyond the purely decorative aspect of such objects, watchmaking in the 19th century is part of a subtle mix of political, historical and literary references. This philhellenic movement converning the West finds a particular echo in France, one of the countries with the United Kingdom and Russia having suported the Greeks during their war of independance (1821-1830) to free oneself from the grip of the Ottoman Empire. Many clocks...
Bronze
$20,585
H 22.45 in W 15.75 in D 4.73 in
Antique Late 18th Century Louis XVI Gilt Gold Patinated Bronze Mantel Clock
Located in London, GB
Antique Late 18th Century Louis XVI Gilt Gold Patinated Bronze Mantel Clock French, Late 18th Century Height 57cm, width 40cm, depth 12cm A wonderful example of late 18th century ...
Bronze, Ormolu
French 19th Century Mantle Clock
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality French late 19th century gilded ormolu and champleve enamel mantel (fireplace) clock. Having urns and a cherub above the eight day clock that chimes...
Enamel, Ormolu
Large Rococo Style Porcelain Mantel Clock by Meissen
Located in London, GB
Large Rococo style porcelain mantel clock by Meissen German, 19th century Measures: Height 66cm, width 33cm, depth 25cm This superb mantel clock is a truly wonderful example of ...
Porcelain
19th Century French Boulle Longcase Clock
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality late 19th Century French boulle inlaid longcase clock, having wonderful scrolling gilded ormolu mounts, an ebonised case wit...
Brass
Antique French Louis XV Style Gilt Bronze Mantel Clock
Located in New York, NY
very fine quality Antique French Louis XV Style Gilt Bronze Mantel Clock
Bronze
French Malachite Mantel Clock by Vincenti & Cie, Paris, circa 1855
Located in New York, NY
This mid-19th-century French mantel clock, made by Vincenti & Cie, Paris, circa 1855, is clad entirely in richly figured malachite, selected for its intense emerald coloration and dr...
Malachite
Porcelain Clock & Stand by Aubert & Klaftenberger
Located in Bronx, NY
This vintage elaborately decorated French porcelain mantle clock dates from the 1850's. The delicate porcelain has hand painted colorful sculpted flowers, gleaming gold gilt scrolls ...
Porcelain
A very fine 19th century French gilt bronze signed mantle clock.
Located in Dallas, TX
A very fine 19th century French large gilt bronze mantle clock . Signed in the dial . Working condition . Rings on the half and the whole
Bronze
Early Gilt Bronze Antique French Clock, Dog and Master
Located in Belper, Derbyshire
A large and early original antique French figural clock featuring a dog in his kennel with his master alongside. Dating from circa 1850, i...
Ormolu
Early Japy Freres Antique French Ormolu Clock, A Girl with her Dog
By Japy Frères
Located in Belper, Derbyshire
An early and stunning original antique French clock by Japy Frères, circa 1850. It features a charming figure of a girl with her favorite dog atop a naturally modelled rocky outcrop ...
Ormolu
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H 11 in W 6.5 in D 5 in
French Painted and Flower Decorated Bronze Mounted Mantel Clock, 19th Century
Located in Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Standing on four sphere shape gilt bronze feet his adorable French Louis Philippe mantel clock features a beautiful shape with soft curves painted in a Venetian red and decorated with flowers and leaf work of great detail. The enamel dial is surrounded by a sunburst style gilt bronze frame and bears the signature of well known Paris clock maker 'Pochon a Paris...
Bronze, Enamel
19th Century Magnificent French Gilt Bronze Cherub Mantle Clock
Located in Dallas, TX
Museum quality highlighting a patinated bronze winged putti holding an hour glass, and dressed in a knotted sash with rose garland. The exquisite d...
Bronze
French Celestial Skeleton Clock
Located in New Orleans, LA
This Louis-Philippe-era skeleton clock is a fine example of mid-19th century clockmaking. Retailed by Jouffroy of Paris, the celestial-themed timepiece ...
Brass, Steel, Zinc
Sold
H 22 in W 10.5 in D 4.75 in
Rosewood Marquetry and Ormolu Lyre Clock with Mystery Pendulum, Henri Marc 1850
Located in Belper, Derbyshire
Rosewood and Ormolu Lyre clock with mystery pendulum French, circa 1850 Excellent condition, fully overhauled. An early and stunning clock by Henri Marc of Paris. It is beaut...
Ormolu
Louis-Philippe Antique Clock in Bronze with Equestrian Statuette
Located in Paris, FR
Gilt and patinated bronze French antique clock decorated with an equestrian statuette depicting a young man wearing a helmet and armor, sitting on a...
Bronze
Mid-19th Century Mantel Clock with Cupid by Quesnel & Cie Paris
Located in Paris, FR
Mid-19th century mantel clock in gilt and patinated bronze featuring a winged cupid on a terrace sculpted with flowers, foliages and animals. The white enamelled dial, with blue Roma...
Bronze
French Celestial Skeleton Clock
Located in New Orleans, LA
This Louis-Philippe-era skeleton clock is a fine example of mid-19th century clock making. Retailed by Jouffroy of London, the celestial-themed timepiec...
Brass, Steel, Zinc
Sold
H 14.96 in W 10.23 in D 3.74 in
French Ormolu Mantle Clock with God Apoll Era Louis-Philippe I, circa 1840
Located in Vienna, AT
Subject: French gorgeous mantel / mantle / table ormolu clock, main parts made of parcel-gilt bronze. - Explanation: Mantel clocks — or shelf clocks — are house clocks traditionally placed on the shelf, or mantel, above the fireplace. Manufactory: French manufactory. Finest quality. Dating: Made circa 1840 (era of LOUIS-PHILIPPE I / reign: 1830 - 1848). Material: Ormolu: The clock's case. Metal: Clockface (clock dial). Steel: Clock's hands. Mechanism: Spring mechanism / tension / striking mechanism (the hours striking on a bell) clock strike on the half hour and on hour: the clockface has two holes for winding up. Measures: Height 14.96 inches, width 10.23 inches, depth 3.74 inches. Specifications: This stunning FRENCH ORMOLU MANTLE/MANTEL CLOCK's dial is made of metal / the clock's hands are made of steel (Latin/Roman numerals on dial existing). The movement is securely attached to the clock's case / it is in excellent condition. The ORIGINAL CLOCKWORK (display for minutes and hours) is in working order / the clock has a pendulum. The excellent clock's case (mainly made of ormolu / parcel-gilt bronze) is manufactured in following manner: The clock's chest is attached to high two-tiered base whereas the upper part's front side is stunningly decorated with figural ornaments made in frieze-technique: Winged elves being busy with works of harvest are shown there - one of them (it is flying up) drags a wheelbarrow heavily laden with fruits of crop, the second one is working with scythe. - The dial is surrounded by floral ornaments (garlands of flower's blossoms, acanthus scrolls and cornucopias). Additionally, a tall sculptured winged figurine of Greek God Apollo stands close beside the clock's chest: This mythological figurine...
Ormolu
Important Clock Garniture by Raingo Frères
Located in London, by appointment only
France 1860-1880. An important three-piece clock set created by Raingo Frères, Paris. With two figures of bronze boys reclining on an intricate body with ormolu floral decorations. ...