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Material: Ceramic
Rare French porcelain and gilt bronze mantel clock by Godon
By François-Louis Godon
Located in HAARLEM, NL
The enamel dial indicating the hours, minutes and date, bears the signature Godon a Paris. It is set in a footed vase of hard-paste Paris porcelain, with angular handles. Painted wit...
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18th Century French Antique Ceramic Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Meissen Art Déco Mantle Clock with Two Putti by Paul Scheurich 1934-1947
Located in Vienna, AT
Excellent Meissen Rococo Style Piece of Art:
On a curved base plate with diamond pattern in marble look, sculptured cushions with tassel decoration, on the side seated figures, girl ...
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Early 20th Century German Rococo Revival Ceramic Clocks
Materials
Porcelain
"The Peaceful Lion" A French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Pendule Au Lion
By Francois Vion
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A French Louis XVI style ormolu and patinated bronze pendule au lion
The clock surmounted by a covered urn, mounted on the back of a patinated bronze lion with mane and serpentine ta...
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1880s French Louis XVI Antique Ceramic Clocks
Materials
Ormolu, Bronze
Antique French Blue Sèvres Porcelain and Bronze D' Ore Clock, Circa 1880
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French Blue Sèvres Porcelain and bronze D' Ore Clock, Circa 1880.
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Late 19th Century French Antique Ceramic Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Louis XV Style Porcelain Clock Attributed Samson & Cie, France, circa 1880
By Samson & Cie
Located in PARIS, FR
Charming polychrome porcelain, green lacquered metal sheet and chiseled gilt bronze Louis XV style clock attributed to Samson & Cie. A gilt bronze bush, decorated with small porcelain flowers and metal sheet foliage, supports the circular face, with Arabic numbers for hours. Rests on a gilt bronze foliage base decorated with a porcelain family scene composed of two parents playing and embracing their child.
This type of clock first appears during the reign of Louis XV. The importation of exotic goods and the opening of the Turkish Embassy, in Paris in 1721, considerably influenced Louis XV style, with the apparition of exotics characters, scenes and animals ornamenting...
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1880s French Louis XV Antique Ceramic Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Japy Freres Ormolu and Sevres Porcelain Antique French Clock
By Louis Japy
Located in Belper, Derbyshire
A stunning antique French Rococo clock, circa 1880. Beautifully made in finely gilded bronze and mounted with exquisite Sèvres style porcelain. The case is of a waisted design with p...
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19th Century French Rococo Antique Ceramic Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Louis XV Style Gilt Bronze and Porcelain Figurative Clock
Located in New York, NY
Very fine quality French 19 century Louis XV style gilt bronze and porcelain Figurative Clock.
With porcelain figures and flowers.
Category
19th Century French Louis XV Antique Ceramic Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Swedish Modern Ceramic Wall Clock by Ulrica Hydman Vallien 1990s Sweden
Located in Miami, FL
By Ulrica Hydman Vallien, ceramic wall clock retailed in the 90s by Time Design. Designed with Hydman' s iconic triangular face in turquoise surr...
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1990s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Ceramic Clocks
Materials
Ceramic
Antique French Sevres Porcelain and Ormolu Clock
Located in Belper, Derbyshire
A fine and stunning original antique French boudoir clock. It is beautifully made of ormolu (finely gilded bronze), very well modelled and...
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ceramic Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
Sèvres Porcelain Louis XVI Lyre Mantel Clock by Kinable, Dial by Dubuisson
Located in Paris, FR
Dieudonné Kinable
Enamel Dial Attributed to Dubuisson (1731-1815)
Exceptional Porcelain Lyre Mantel Clock from the Royal Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
Paris, late Louis XVI period, circa 1785-1790
Height 62 cm; width 26 cm; depth 16 cm
The round enamel dial, signed “Kinable”, indicates the hours in Roman numerals, the fifteen-minute intervals in Arabic numerals, the annual calendar and the signs of the Zodiac, by means of four hands, two of which are made of pierced gilt bronze, the two others in blued steel. The magnificent lyre-shaped case is made of “bleu nouveau” Sèvres porcelain and finely chased and gilt bronze. The bezel is made up of a gilt bronze twisted rope; the pendulum is adorned with brilliant-cut paste stones; the body of the lyre is adorned with gilt bronze beading and with laurel leaf and seed motifs, with two rosettes issuing floral and foliate swags. The clock is surmounted by a mask with radiating sunrays. The spreading foot is decorated with beading and twisted rope motifs and a leafy garland. The en-suite decorated oval base is raised upon four flattened ball feet.
The Royal Sèvres Porcelain Factory produced the lyre clock model as of 1785. Four colours were offered: turquoise, green, pink and bleu nouveau. These exceptional clocks were made for the connoisseurs of the time. Louis XVI had a similar clock in his Salon des jeux in Versailles; its dial bore the signature of the clockmaker Courieult (this is almost certainly the example illustrated in P. Verlet, Les bronzes dorés français du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1999, p. 41). Kinable, however, was the clockmaker who purchased the greatest number of lyre cases from the factory, and he developed the model in the late 18th century. Among the porcelain lyre clocks signed by this brilliant horologer, one example is in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (illustrated in H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Band I, Munich, 1986, p. 252, fig. 4.6.26). A second such clock is in the Royal British Collection (see C. Jagger, Royal Clocks, The British Monarchy & its Timekeepers 1300-1900, 1983, p. 130, fig. 176).
Bibliography:
M. Gay and A. Lemaire, “Les pendules lyre”, in Bulletin de l’Association nationale des Collectionneurs et Amateurs d’Horlogerie ancienne, Winter 1993, n° 68, p. 5-40.
Dieudonné Kinable (active circa 1785-1810)
One of the most important Parisian clockmakers of the late 18th century. His shop was located at n° 131 Palais Royal. He purchased a great number of lyre-type porcelain clock cases...
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1780s French Louis XVI Antique Ceramic Clocks
Materials
Bronze
French 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mantle Clock with Nautical Scenes
Located in London, GB
An impressive French mantel clock by LeCat of Paris.
Constructed in the Louis XV manner, the monumental gilt bronze framework housing hand-painted porcelain plaques of nautical sc...
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Ceramic Clocks
Materials
Bronze
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