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Style: Louis XVI
Material: Metal
Rare Louis XVI Period with Marble Mantel Clock
Located in Montreal, QC
Rare Louis XVI period white marble mantel clock extensively decorated with very fine gilt bronze mounts, the white enamel dial flanked by two neoclassical urns, extensively decorated...
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18th Century and Earlier European Louis XVI Antique Metal Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Large 18th Century French Louis XVI White Marble Mantel Clock with Pallas Athena
Located in Berlin, DE
Large 18th Century French Louis XVI White Marble Mantel Clock with Pallas Athena
A large late 18th century white marble and gilt-bronze mantel clock, th...
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Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Metal Clocks
Materials
Carrara Marble, Bronze
French Mantle Clock Garniture in the Louis XVI Manner
Located in London, GB
Constructed in gilt bronze and decorated with champleve´ enamel; the candelabra have toupie feet supporting the shaped circular bases, on which winged cherubs hold two armed candle a...
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1880s French Louis XVI Antique Metal Clocks
Materials
Enamel, Ormolu
Unusual 19th Century French rotary Clock Garniture
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A rare and very fine 19th century French Louis XVI style ormolu mounted white marble 3-piece Rotary (Annular) clock set comprising a clock and a pair of 3 arms candelabra.
The urn s...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Metal Clocks
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Exceptional French Three-Piece Rotary Mystery Clock Set Maiden Candelabra Suite
By Henry Dasson
Located in Roslyn, NY
Exceptional 19th century, French 'Three Graces' annular dial clock, bronze and marble clock, with Roi-de-bleu enamel globe surmounted by Cupid. The ...
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1880s French Louis XVI Antique Metal Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Large Malachite, Gilt and Patinated Bronze Clock Set
Located in London, GB
This majestic, neoclassical style clock set – the clock of which measures 1m and the candelabra 1m 11cm in height – will make a bold statement in an interior. With its magnificent pa...
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Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Metal Clocks
Materials
Malachite, Bronze
Pair Louis XVI Style Candelabra, 19th Century
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality pair of French gilded ormolu and rouge marble candelabra, depicting two putti each supporting a two branch candelabra.
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1860s French Louis XVI Antique Metal Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
"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 Metal Clocks
Materials
Ormolu, Bronze
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...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Metal Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
Fine French Louis XVI Bronze Mantel Clock by Marquis a Paris
Located in Westwood, NJ
A fine and rare 19th century French Louis XVI bronze Mantel clock by Marquis a Paris. The wonderful clock has elaborate bronze decorations with masks,...
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1870s French Louis XVI Antique Metal Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Late 18th Century Louis XVI Carrara and Black Marble Ormolu Portico Mantle Clock
Located in Berlin, DE
Late 18th century Carrara and black marble ormolu mantel clock, the white enamel dial with Arabic numerals signed „Poudra à Paris“, surmounted by ...
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Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Metal Clocks
Materials
Carrara Marble, Enamel, Ormolu
“Cercles Tournants” Louis XVI Mantel Clock, Bronze Attributed to Gouthière
By Pierre Gouthiere
Located in Paris, FR
Important white marble “Cercles Tournants” mantel clock.
Gilt bronze mounts attributed to Pierre Gouthière.
Paris, Louis XVI period, circa 1775...
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1770s French Louis XVI Antique Metal Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
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 Metal Clocks
Materials
Bronze
A Louis XVI Period Antique French, Patinated and Dore Bronze Mounted Figural Clock
Located in New York, NY
A Very Fine Unusually Large Louis XVI Period antique French, Patinated and Dore bronze Mounted Figural Clock. A pair of maidens are mounted on either side of the clock, which rests o...
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18th Century and Earlier French Louis XVI Antique Metal Clocks
Materials
Bronze
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