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Technique: Boulle
Exceptional C19th French Boulle Mantle Clock
Located in London, GB
A very Important French Ormolu Mounted Boulle Mantel Clock
Inlaid Brass in The Regency Style
Each Corner Decorated with Recumbent Horses
Nice Large Dial 8 and a half inches surround...
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19th Century French Regency Antique Boulle Mantel Clocks
Materials
Brass, Ormolu
French Tortoiseshell Boulle Clock. c.1860
By Japy Frères
Located in Norwich, GB
French Tortoiseshell Boulle Clock c.1860
Waisted case veneered with red tortoiseshell with finely figured brass and ormolu mounts, surmounted w...
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1860s French Antique Boulle Mantel Clocks
Materials
Tortoise Shell
18th Century French Louis XV Boulle and Gilt Bronze Bracket Clock
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A Period Louis XV Boulle mantle clock The case is inlaid with brass and is further decorated with Rococo scrollwork and gilded bronze mounts. The det...
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Late 18th Century French Louis XV Antique Boulle Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
French Tortoiseshell Boulle Mantel Clock
Located in Norwich, GB
French tortoiseshell Boulle clock with ormolu mounts and surmounted by a brass finial.
Enamel dial with Roman numerals and original ‘blued’ ste...
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19th Century French Victorian Antique Boulle Mantel Clocks
Materials
Tortoise Shell
Red Tortoiseshell and Boulle Table or Mantle Clock
Located in Folkestone, GB
An exceptionally fine quality French 19th century tortoiseshell and Boulle bracket clock with gilt face set into the most fabulously inlaid fret-cut boule case, decorated all round i...
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Mid-19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Boulle Mantel Clocks
Materials
Tortoise Shell
French Tortoiseshell Boulle Mantel Clock by Roskell, Paris
Located in Norwich, GB
Fine Tortoiseshell Boulle clock in an arch top case, standing on elaborate gilded Ormolu feet with raised base with Acanthus leaf decoration.
two-piece enamel dial with Brocot (vi...
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19th Century French Antique Boulle Mantel Clocks
Materials
Tortoise Shell
French Tortoiseshell Boulle Clock
Located in Norwich, GB
French Tortoiseshell Boulle clock with ormolu mounts surmounted by a brass finial.
Gilded dial with individual enamel segmented Roman numerals....
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Early 1900s French Edwardian Antique Boulle Mantel Clocks
Materials
Tortoise Shell
French Tortoiseshell Drumhead Boulle Clock
Located in Norwich, GB
French Tortoishell Boulle clock in a drumhead case with raised stepped plinth, ebonised sides and resting on ornate ormolu feet.
Brass bezel opening to an enamel dial with Roman num...
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1870s French Victorian Antique Boulle Mantel Clocks
Materials
Tortoise Shell
French Tortoiseshell Boulle Mantel Clock
By A.D. Mougin
Located in Norwich, GB
French Tortoiseshell Boulle clock with ormolu mounts surmounted by an ornate central finial.
Gilded dial with segmented blue enamel Roman numer...
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19th Century French Victorian Antique Boulle Mantel Clocks
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Tortoise Shell
Louis XV Tortoiseshell Boulle Clock by St Martin, Paris, circa 1720
Located in Norwich, GB
Louis XV tortoiseshell Boulle Timepiece with ‘Silent’ pull quarter repeat by St. Martin, Paris, circa 1720
Waisted case with fine ormolu mounts and cut brass inlay to the stained tortoiseshell with ‘mother of pearl’ and coloured floral decoration. Gilded top surmounted by a cherub feeding through a straw from a scallop shell over leafy corner mounts. Shaped bead-bordered glazed door applied with an apron mount of a child chromos holding a sandglass and staff, set within a leafy trail surround. Brass lined recessed arch windows to the sides, the interior of the case with symmetrical Rococo panel...
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1720s French Louis XV Antique Boulle Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
19th Century Figural Mantle Clock
Located in Dublin 8, IE
19th century figural mantle clock in the Rocaille manner, the boulle work case of waisted design decorated with finely cast ormolu mounts to the ...
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19th Century European Antique Boulle Mantel Clocks
Materials
Brass
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A magnificent, completely restored Louis XV bracket clock by Michel a Dijon, signed on the dial and the time/strike movement. A winged putto in partial drape seated upon the removable architectural top, with two bells concealed beneath. The ornate boulle and brass decorated case is fronted by a pair of figural demi-pilasters having fluted and bellflower pendants. A central arched glazed door opening to an enameled dial and chapters, above a pierced cast brass plaque of robust putti and intertwined foliates. All set on four recumbent figural sphinx figures; raised on a further inlaid shaped plinth with rope trim ending in toupie feet, the back with brass and floral shell inlays. Signed Michel a Dijon on the dial and the time/strike movement.
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