Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
LOUIS XVI STYLE
Reflecting the final era of royal opulence before the upheaval of the French Revolution, antique Louis XVI furniture features more angular shapes than the Rococo curves of the Louis XV style, harkening back to the imposing grandeur of Louis XIV.
Dating between 1750 and 1800, an era that overlapped with the last king of France whose reign was cut short by the guillotine, Louis XVI furniture, known as the goût grec, is emblematic of the neoclassical revision that French furniture underwent during the second half of the 18th century.
Authentic Louis XVI furniture characteristics include clean lines and carved details such as scrolls and acanthus flourishes that were inspired by ancient Greece and Rome. This was informed by a burgeoning interest in antiquity in the 18th century, owing to new archaeological excavations at sites including Pompeii and Herculaneum. It largely eclipsed the more East Asian–influenced ornamentation of Louis XV for something more geometric and symmetrical.
The Louis XVI style was defined by what was being created for the palatial rooms at Versailles and Fontainebleau, particularly for the queen, with cabinetmaker Jean-Henri Riesener being a favorite of Marie-Antoinette’s for his luxurious pieces accented with gilded bronze and marquetry. Furniture maker Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené was also a major designer of the period, with his pieces for the royal residences adorned with giltwood and neoclassical touches like tapered columns for chair legs and laurel leaf carvings. Cabinetmaker Adam Weisweiler occasionally incorporated into his furniture porcelain panels produced by Sèvres, a popular manufacturer of European ceramics that served the crown with serveware, vases and other decorative objects.
Find a collection of antique Louis XVI seating, tables, cabinets and other furniture on 1stDibs.
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Style: Louis XVI
palatial 3 pieces clock set in bronze with cherub
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Incredible and huge gilded and patinated bronze clock set of three pieces composed of a pair of nine lights candelabra and a clock . The candelabra are supported by a two standing c...
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1890s French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
$99,000 / set
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 French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Carrara Marble, Ormolu
French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Marble and Ormolu Clock
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A spectacular French 19th century Louis XVI st. white Carrara marble and ormolu clock, signed Samuel Marti. The clock is raised by six beautiful circular ormolu feet with fine fluted...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
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Carrara Marble, Ormolu
Gilt Bronze and Pink Sevres Style Porcelain Antique Clock Set
Located in London, GB
This exquisite pink porcelain clock set is made in the Louis XVI style and comprises of two vases flanking a central clock. The porcelain clock dial is delicately painted and bears a...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
$8,920 Sale Price / set
30% Off
Louis XVI Style Mantel Clock by Ernest Royer
Located in London, GB
This fine neoclassical style mantel clock will make a sumptuous addition to a grand room, or could be given as a unique gift to a loved one. The clock is the work of Ernest Royer, an...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
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Bronze, Ormolu
$11,268 Sale Price
30% Off
Large Louis XVI Style Gilded Clock Garniture
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very impressive gilded ormolu Louis XVI style clock garniture, the clock and candelabra being supported by winged cherubs, scrolling swags and foliage and classical mask...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
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Ormolu
$77,803 / set
19th Century French Louis XVI Style "Astronomy" Mantel Clock, circa 1845
By Perrelet
Located in Greven, DE
French mantel clock "Astronomy"
Paris
Bronze, marble
Mid 19th century
Dimensions: H x W x D: 38 x 55 x 16 cm
Description:
A Louis XVI-style figural mantel clock mounted on a two-t...
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1840s French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
French 18th Century Louis XVI Period Ormolu and Marble Clock
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A charming and high quality French 18th century Louis XVI period ormolu, Gris St. Anne and white Carrara marble clock, signed 'Mailland, a Paris'. The clock is raised by six mottled ...
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
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Marble, Ormolu
Antique French Ormolu Clock and Candlesticks Set with Rouge Marble, Circa 1880's
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French exquisite quality Ormolu clock and candlesticks of Vatican rouge marble, circa 1875-1885
Clock measures 15” H x 10” W x 4 1/2” D
Candlestick measures 13” H x 7” W ...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Fine Quality 19th Century Sevres Style Clock Garniture
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A fine quality 19th century French Sevres style porcelain and gilded ormolu clock garniture. The pair of five branch gilded ormolu candelabra each having Sevres style porcelain urns and pedestals with classical romantic scenes painted on them. The clock having an impressive lidded porcelain urn above with gilded handles either side, scrolling foliate ormolu mounts above the porcelain faced eight day duration clock that chimes...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
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Ormolu
$30,048 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century French Boulle Mantel Clock
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very impressive 19th century French Boulle inlaid mantel clock. Having a gilded ormolu figure of father time to the top, beautiful brass inlaid decoration to the sides and front. T...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Brass
A-E Beurdeley, « The Coronation of Science » Clock, France, circa 1880
Located in PARIS, FR
Signed on the dial A. Beurdeley Paris
Mechanism signed J LEFEBVRE FILS PARIS
Rare Louis XVI style clock in mercury-gilded and patinated chiseled bronze and white marble. In the form of an arched pediment, it is decorated with four Cupids, two carrying a garland of flowers highlighting the dial, and two others symbolizing the coronation of Science. The molded base in white marble, with a double recess, is decorated with a ribboned torus, a frieze of ribboned oak leaves and interlacing, and rests on six flattened ball feet.
Related work :
In 1774, the bronze-caster Robert Osmond (1711-1789) designed a first model known as “architectural drawing” illustrating The Coronation of Science. Also called The Children of France, it is decorated with a putti crowning a young girl drawing with a compass and delivered to Versailles by Lépine, clockmaker to the King since 1762, for the apartment of Madame Royale in the Princes’ Wing, on December 28, 1778. (see photo attached)
This clock is described in the inventory of Versailles clocks...
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1870s French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Superb Bronze and Marble Mantle Clock
Located in Atlanta, GA
A superb clock in the manner of Le Faucher (clocksmith for Louis XVI) signed J. B. Dutertre. Paris, France, circa 1880.
Dimensions: Height 19", width 14", ...
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1880s French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Magnificent 19th Century clock in bronze with cupids pulling a chariot by rams
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A fine antiques french gilt bronze and marble base clock representing cupids pulling a chariot by rams.
the top of the clock is crowned by a cupid ...
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1880s French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Clock set 3 pieces marble and bronze with cherub
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Magnificent clock set three pieces executed by Prosper Roufoel working 26 place Vendome a Paris, one of the most pretigious place in paris where is the great jewwelers and the ritz ...
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1880s French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
$27,000 Sale Price / set
22% Off
Louis XVI Style Ormolu and Marble Mantel Clock
Located in London, GB
This neoclassical style French mantel clock is crafted from patinated and gilt bronze in addition to flecked black and grey marble. The clock body is formed from a lopsidedly mounted...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Ormolu, Bronze
$8,920 Sale Price
30% Off
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 French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
Antique Neoclassical Louis XVI Gilt Bronze and Malachite Clock
Located in London, GB
Antique Neoclassical Louis XVI gilt bronze and malachite clock
French, late 18th Century
Measures: Height 56cm, width 35cm, depth 12cm
Crafted from gilt bronze and a later malac...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Malachite, Ormolu
$11,268 Sale Price
30% Off
19th Century French Pink Porcelain Clock by Japy Fréres in the Louis XVI Manner
By Japy Frères
Located in London, GB
A table clock in the Louis XVI Manner
By Japy Frères
The finely chased ormolu case is dressed with pink 'Sèvres' style hand decorated polychrome panels to the face and sides, dep...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu, Bronze
Rare 19th Century Sevres Style Clock Set
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very fine quality French late 19th century Sevres style and gilded ormolu clock garniture. Having a pair of four branch candelabra, each with ram's head and female mask mounts, dra...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
$37,560 / set
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 Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Carrara Marble, Bronze, Enamel
Large French, Louis XVI Period Marble and Ormolu Portico Clock
By Gavelle l'ainé à Paris
Located in Montreal, QC
A Louis XVI ormolu and marble portico clock, the enameled dial with Roman numerals, and subsidiary calendar and minute chapter rings, signed Gavelle L'Aine (1753-1802) The barrel-shaped case surmounted by a gilt bronze figure of a Guerrier, in martial attitude, flanked by chained black marble pillars...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
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Marble
$14,300 Sale Price
35% Off
Louis XVI Gilt Bronze and Marble Mantel Clock
Located in Astoria, NY
Louis XVI Gilt Bronze and Marble Mantel Clock, late 18th century, of architectural form, the pediment surmounted by an Apollo portrait bust, supporting by tapering columns, centered ...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
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Marble, Bronze
Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Sevres Clock Set, 3
Located in Astoria, NY
Louis XVI Style Sevres Gilt Bronze Mounted Pink Ground Three Piece Clock Set, late 19th century, the clock centered by a white enamel dial painted with flowers, two handles with masq...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
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Bronze, Enamel
$2,800 / set
Unusually Large 18th Century Louis XVI Ormolu and Marble Obelisk Mantel Clock
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
The movement is contained in an unusually large (67 cm!) white marble obelisk which is surmounted by an armillary sphere finial. The front with a panel chased with nymphs supporting ...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
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Marble, Ormolu
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...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
French 19th Century Classical Mantel Clock
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very impressive 19th century classical French Louis XVI style mantel clock, having gilded ormolu figures of a naked maiden looking in a mirror with two cherubs to her side, above a...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
$5,151 Sale Price
20% Off
French Louis XVI Style Clock Garniture
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very pleasing French gilded ormolu and white marble clock garniture in the Louis XVI style. The clock having a cherub holding a chicken, the white enamel clock face with an eight d...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
$6,707 / set
Fine 19th Century Neoclassical Ormolu Clock, Three-Piece Set with Vase Garniture
Located in Madrid, ES
Established in the early 1800s, Raingo Frères (Raingo Brothers) was one of the leading makers of precision clocks and astronomical “orrerey” devices du...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
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Enamel, Bronze
French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Ormolu and Porcelain Clock
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An elegant French 19th century Louis XVI St. ormolu and porcelain clock. The small scale clock is raised by fine tapered fluted legs below striking richly chased block rosettes cente...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
A late Louis XVI marble and ormolu portico clock
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A late Louis XVI marble and ormolu portico clock, comprising a central drum-shaped clock with a sunburst pendulum, surmounted by the gilded figure of Athena wearing armour with a plu...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
19th Century Louis XVI Style Champleve Enamel Clock Set
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality, 19th century French gilded ormolu and champleve enamel clock garniture. The clock has a cherub on either side, an urn with swags to the top, 'C' scroll and folia...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Enamel, Ormolu
Large Louis XVI Style Clock Set
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality late 19th century French gilded ormolu clock garniture, having a pair of five branch scrolling foliate candelabra either side. The white enameled clock face with ...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
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Ormolu
$10,731 / set
A magnificent bronze clock depicting a resting Cupid
Located in Atlanta, GA
A magnificent bronze clock depicting a resting Cupid with his quiver and bow and a dove as messenger of love. The whole raised on Rouge Griotte marble plinth enriched with gilt and m...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Antique Louis XVI Style Marble, Gilt and Patinated Bronze Clock Set
Located in London, GB
This clock set is a remarkable antique, which is not only a brilliant piece of technical design—serving as a fully-functioning timepiece—but is also an exceptional work of sculpture....
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
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Marble, Bronze, Enamel, Ormolu
$26,292 Sale Price / set
30% Off
Clock set three pieces in sevres style and bronze
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very nice high-end clock set three pieces in sevres style and bronze,this clock set have a plus ,the dial is in sevres ,original condition and never touch, the quality of the depic...
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1890s French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Louis XVI Style Pink Porcelain Mantel Clock, 19th Century
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality French 19th Century Louis XVI style gilded ormolu and 'Severs' style pink porcelain mantel clock. In the form of a vase with an inset clock face, an eight day dur...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
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Ormolu
Louis XVI Style 19th Century Ormolu-Mounted White Marble Obelisk Mantel Clock
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A French white marble mantel clock of obelisk form with ormolu decorations in Louis XVI style. The enamel dial with Arabic numerals an...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
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Marble, Ormolu
19th Century French Champlevé Enamel Clock Set
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very fine quality 19th century Louis XVI style gilded ormolu and champlevé enamel clock garniture, the four sided clock having four enamel col...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Enamel, Ormolu
$11,402 / set
19th Century French Gilt Bronze and Sevres Porcelain Garniture De Cheminée
By Henry Dasson
Located in London, GB
An important Garniture de Cheminée in the manner of Henry Dasson
Constructed in well cast and chased gilt bronze, with 'Sevres' type 'jewelled...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
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Ormolu, Bronze
Elaborate Gilt Bronze and Sèvres-style Porcelain Mantel Clock, circa 1870
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine and elaborate gilt bronze and Sèvres-style porcelain mantel clock.
French, circa 1870.
A fine and elaborate gilt bronze and Sèvres-style porcelain mantel clock with a fo...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Louis XVI Style Mantel Clock of a Lion Signed Festeau Le Jeune
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
The clock is signed by the Clockmaker Festeau Le Jeune. The case after a design of François Vion in form of a lion supporting a cylindrical case draped with ribbon tied laurel swags ...
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
$21,302 Sale Price
25% Off
Gilt Bronze and Marble Figural Clock
Located in Atlanta, GA
A very fine gilt bronze, patinated bronze and marble clock by Marlin & Cottin, 26 rue Amelot, Paris. The body of the clock made rouge marble ornate with gilt bronze garlands raised o...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
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Marble, Bronze
Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze and White Marble Clock By François Linke, circa 1890
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine Louis XVI style gilt bronze and white marble clock depicting Diana and Cupid, by François Linke.
French, circa 1890.
Signe...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
French Louis XVI Style Mid-19th Century Ormolu and Rouge Griotte Marble Clock
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning and very high quality French mid-19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu and Rouge Griotte marble clock, stamped L. Oudry, Paris. The c...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Clock Set in Marble and Bronze by F.Gervais
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Truly unique clock set in pink marble and bronze decorative piece of art
the clock is modelled in the image of an 18 century sedan chair that is covered ...
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1870s French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
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Marble, Bronze
Louis XVI Style Porcelain Mantle Clock, French, Late 19th Century
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
Louis XVI Style Porcelain Mantle Clock, French, Late 19th Century. Molded white glazed and gilded porcelain body in Severes style decorated wit...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
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Porcelain
18th Century Louis XVI Ormolu and Marble Cercle Tournant Mantel Clock by Lepaute
By Lepaute
Located in London, GB
18th century Louis XVI ormolu and marble cercle tournant mantel clock by Lapaute
French, Late 18th Century
Height 39cm, width 18cm, depth 12cm
Dating from the latter part of the 18...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
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Marble, Enamel, Ormolu
$8,920 Sale Price
30% Off
Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Mantel Clock
Located in Bradenton, FL
A very good quality Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Mantel Clock. French gilt bronze clock with enamel face, fruit and lion motif, on plinth. H 22.3 cm (8.8 in.),
All clocks sold as is w...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Louis XVI Style Partial Gilt Mounted Clock
Located in Germantown, MD
Louis XVI Style Partial Gilt and decorated Mantle Clock. True to the decorative arts of the 19 th century, this quality designer statement work blends...
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Late 20th Century Unknown Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Composition
Louis XVI Style Porcelain and Gilt-Bronze Lyre Clock Garniture, circa 1900
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine Louis XVI style cobalt blue porcelain and gilt-bronze lyre clock garniture, with jewel set pendulum.
French, circa 1900.
The candelabra bearing a paper label to the und...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
19th Century French Gilt Bronze & Crystal Regulator Clock by Samuel Marti
By Samuel Marti
Located in Tarry Town, NY
An exquisite example of 19th-century French horology, this gilt bronze and crystal case regulator clock was crafted by the renowned Samuel Marti in France, 1873. This elegant timepie...
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1870s French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Louis XVI Bronze, Marble, & Porcelain Rotary Clock
Located in Astoria, NY
Louis XVI Gilt Bronze, Marble, and Porcelain Pendule a Cercles Tourants Rotary Clock, late 18th century, surmounted by a bird holding a wreath and tassels, over drum shape movement, ...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
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Marble, Bronze
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 French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
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 French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Malachite, Bronze
$11,600 Sale Price
20% Off
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 Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Enamel, Bronze
Very Impressive French 19th Century Neoclassical Lyre-Form Clock
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
An impressive French 19th century Neoclassical Lyre-form clock with jeweled pendulum.
Amazing quality white and yellow marble 19th century French Lyre-Form clock mounted all over with gilt bronze...
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1850s French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Crystal, Marble, Enamel, Ormolu
$7,100 Sale Price
52% Off
Mantelpiece The Message By J Castellamare, 19th Century
Located in MARSEILLE, FR
Mantelpiece set consisting of 3 pieces, a clock and 2 vases, all in patinated spelter and green marble
The clock is decorated with a Cupid tenderly holding a bird in his arms, leanin...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Spelter
French Mid-19th Century Louis XVI Style Marble and Ormolu Clock
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A spectacular French mid 19th century Louis XVI st. white Carrara marble and ormolu clock in the manner of Clodion. The clock is raised by elegant reeded topie shaped feet below the ...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Carrara Marble, Ormolu
Louis XVI Style Ormolu Mantel Clock Freres Paris
Located in New York, NY
Style of Robert Osmond, circa 1776. Movement signed 'Freres, Paris,' third quarter of the 19th century.
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Louis Xvi mantel clocks for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Louis XVI mantel clocks for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the Early 20th Century, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage mantel clocks created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include decorative objects, more furniture and collectibles, serveware, ceramics, silver and glass and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, ormolu and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Louis XVI mantel clocks made in a specific country, there are Europe, France, and Belgium pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original mantel clocks, popular names associated with this style include François Linke, Maison Deniere, Raingo Frères, and Japy Frères. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for mantel clocks differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $782 and tops out at $527,473 while the average work can sell for $10,220.
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