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19th Century Louis XVI style, Mantel Clock 17"(43cm)
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality 19th Century French gilded ormolu mantel clock. Having a cherub playing a base violin, a four glass case mounted with ormolu foliate and swag decoration, an eight...
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19th Century French Antique Ormolu Clocks
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Ormolu
Unusual French Gilt Bronze Chinoiserie Clock of Lovers
Located in New York, NY
19th c. French Gilt Dore Bronze Chinoiserie Clock possibly made for the Chinese market. The intricately dressed figures are highly detailed wi...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
Antique French Louis XVI style gilt bronze cartel clock
Located in London, GB
Antique French Louis XVI style gilt bronze cartel clock
French, late 19th Century
Height 63cm, width 28cm, depth 10cm
This elegant cartel clo...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Clocks
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Ormolu
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Grandfather Clock
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A Late 19th century French Louis XVI style gilt bronze mounted parquetry longcase grandfather clock. Surmounted an ormolu figure of a classical seated lady holding a globe,
circa ...
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19th Century French Antique Ormolu Clocks
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Ormolu
Three-piece French porcelain and gilt bronze clock set
Located in London, GB
Three-piece French porcelain and gilt bronze clock set
French, late 19th Century
Clock: Height 27cm, width 36.5cm, depth 12cm
Candelabra: Height 33cm, width 20cm, depth 11.5cm
This fine three-piece clock set is by Henri Picard, one of the leading producers of luxury bronze...
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19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Ormolu Clocks
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Ormolu
Louis XV Style Cartel Clock
Located in Pembroke, MA
Louis XV style Cartel clock in gilt bronze with painted porcelain dial. The case has been re-gilded, and features typical rocaille ornament such as laurel leaves and berries, flowers...
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Ormolu Clocks
Materials
Ormolu, Bronze
19th Century French Marble and Ormolu Mantle Clock in the Louis XV Style
Located in London, GB
A mantel clock in the Louis XV manner.
Constructed in white Carrara marble and gilt bronze; the rectangular form base having bowed ends, rises from gilt toupie feet and has opposed gilt sphinxes and gilt bronze foliate mounts to the facia; the two train clock...
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Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Ormolu Clocks
Materials
Carrara Marble, Ormolu
19th Century French Clock Set, with Pietra Dura Panels
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality 19th century gilded ormolu Louis XVI style clock garniture. The clock having a Classical Roman soldier above a square section clock with inlaid marble clock face and supported by cherubs with swags.
The pair of candelabra each having four branches, an urn and raised in plinths with inset Pietra Dura panels.
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Clocks
Materials
Marble, 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 Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Clocks
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Neo-Gothic antique three piece ormolu clock set
Located in London, GB
The central clock with dial to the center, displaying hours in individual plaques in Roman numerals and five minute intervals engraved into the ormolu case in Arabic numerals, the ca...
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19th Century French Gothic Antique Ormolu Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
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...
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1820s French Louis Philippe Antique Ormolu Clocks
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
19th Century Sevres Clock Set
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A fine quality 19th century French Sevres porcelain and gilded ormolu clock garniture. Having a very impressive pair of five branch candelabra each...
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1890s French Antique Ormolu Clocks
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Ormolu
French Ormolu Mantel Clock by Victor Paillard
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A superb 19th century French gilt bronze figural mantel clock by Victor Paillard (1805-1886).
The urn-shaped case with pomegranate finial, flanked by classical allegorical figures. ...
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19th Century French Antique Ormolu Clocks
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Ormolu
Bronze and Porphyry Clock by Julien Le Roy, 19th Century
Located in Cypress, CA
A magnificent 19th century French Louis XVI ormolu and patinated bronze mounted Porphyry clock with two reclining bronze cherubs playing a gilt harp. The movement made by Dargent Medallie Company with silk suspension. Signed by Julien Le Roy...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Clocks
Materials
Porphyry, Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Charles X Period Ormolu Mounted Jacob Petit Porcelain Mantel Clock
By Jacob Petit
Located in London, GB
Charles X Period Ormolu Mounted Jacob Petit Porcelain Mantel Clock
French, c.1825
Height 36cm, width 18.5m, depth 10.5cm
Set within a beautiful porcelain case, parcel gilt, and flor...
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Early 19th Century French Charles X Antique Ormolu Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
Three-Piece Clock Garniture by Raingo Frères, Paris
Located in London, by appointment only
A magnificent three-piece ormolu clock garniture of the finest quality. Spotless mercury gilding covers every visible space. Two female figures support the clock, two male figures su...
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1820s French Louis Philippe Antique Ormolu Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
French Mantel Clock and Candelabra of Gilt Bronze and Blue ‘Sèvres’ Porcelain
Located in London, GB
A Good French mantel clock garniture
By Charles Oudin, Paris
The garniture comprising a clock and two candelabras, constructed in gilt bronze and ‘Se...
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19th Century French Antique Ormolu Clocks
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Ormolu
French gilt bronze and enamel three-piece clock set
Located in London, GB
French gilt bronze and enamel three-piece clock set
French, late 19th Century
Clock: Height 45cm, width 26cm, depth 14.5cm
Candelabra: Height 31.5cm, width 21cm, depth 9cm
This char...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Ormolu Clocks
Materials
Enamel, Ormolu
Mantelpiece Clock in the Louis XVI Manner, Retailed by E & S Watson of London
Located in London, GB
Constructed in a fine quality two-tone ormolu case, and adorned with rose ground ‘Sevres’ style panels to both front and sides, depicting; rising from oblate toupie feet, the domed case is of modest breakfront form, with a flambeaux urn atop, having tea rose garlands conjoining the body; the clock face delineates the hours in Roman numerals in white cartouches, and is driven by an eight day movement, striking on a bell, with the backplate having the retailer’s stamp, ‘E & S Watson...
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19th Century English Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Clocks
Materials
Gold, Ormolu
French Art Nouveau Grandfather Clock
Located in New York, NY
French Art Nouveau bronze dore grandfather clock with marble & onyx pedestal top and base. *Not working
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Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Ormolu Clocks
Materials
Marble, Onyx, Ormolu
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. ...
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Early 19th Century French Louis Philippe Antique Ormolu Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Louis XV Style Ormolu-Mounted Tortoiseshell Clock and Barometer Set by Gleizes
Located in London, GB
Gilt-bronze and Tortoiseshell Clock and Barometer set by Gleizes
French, 19th Century
Height 115cm, width 30cm, depth 7cm
In the Louis XV style, t...
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19th Century French Rococo Antique Ormolu Clocks
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Ormolu
18th Century Louis XVI Gilt-Bronze and White Marble Mantel Clock, circa 1780
Located in Berlin, DE
An 18th Century Louis XVI Gilt-Bronze and White Marble Mantel Clock, circa 1780
An 18th century Louis XVI gilt-bronze and white marble clock, the white enamel dial with Roman and Ar...
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1780s French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Clocks
Materials
Carrara Marble, Enamel, Ormolu
French Ormolu Bronze and Champlevé Enamel 8-Day Regulator Clock
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A late 19th century French ormolu bronze and champlevé enamel 8-day regulator clock,
circa 1890.
Origin: France.
Height 18.5".
Width: 9.5".
Depth...
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19th Century French Antique Ormolu Clocks
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Enamel, Ormolu
Antique French Empire Neoclassical Gilt Bronze Figural Clock
Located in New York, NY
An Exquisite Antique French Period Empire Neoclassical gilt bronze figural clock embellished with figure of a neoclassical woman and bird.
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19th Century French Empire Antique Ormolu Clocks
Materials
Ormolu, Steel, Enamel
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 Ormolu 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 Ormolu Clocks
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Marble, Ormolu
Antique French Gilt Bronze and Rouge Marble Clock Set
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Fine 19th century French gilt bronze mounted Rouge marble 3-piece figural clock set
Clock:
Height: 19.5"
Width: 10.5"
Candelabras:
Height: 22.5"
Width: 9"
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19th Century French Antique Ormolu Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
A Palatial 19th Century French Second Empire Ormolu Mounted Bronze Garniture Set
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An Palatial 19th Century French Second Empire Ormolu Mounted Bronze and Green Marble Three Piece Garniture Set
circa 1820.
Origin: France
Measures: Clock
Height 32"
Width 21"
Dept...
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19th Century French Empire Antique Ormolu Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Period Portico Clock in Tulipwood, Fine Inlay, Ormolu Mounts-France, 19th c.
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Portico style French tulipwood clock with Boulle style fine inlays of mother-of-pearl and bronze. Eight day French movement with a grid-iron ormolu pendulum...
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19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Ormolu Clocks
Materials
Brass, Ormolu
Gilt bronze garniture set
Located in Atlanta, GA
Very fine gilt bronze Rococo style garniture set depicting frolicking cherubs and a satyr. The clock is 31 inches high and 24 inches wide. The candelabra...
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19th Century French Antique Ormolu Clocks
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Ormolu
Louis XV Style Imari Mantle Clock Garniture
Located in Montreal, QC
Louis XV style gilt bronze and porcelain Imari mantel clock and garniture.
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19th Century French Antique Ormolu Clocks
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Ormolu
Clock Mantle Gilt Bronze Neoclassical Empire French 19th Century France
Located in New York, NY
Clock Mantle Gilt Bronze Neoclassical Empire French 19th Century France. A French mantel clock in gilt bronze. Neoclassical symbols such Cup...
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Late 18th Century French Neoclassical Antique Ormolu Clocks
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Ormolu
19th Century French Sevres Style Figural Garniture Clock Set
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This excuisite 3-piece 19th century French ormolu mounted porcelain clock set comprising a central clock and a pair of flanking candelabra. The clock in urn shape form over a gilt br...
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19th Century French Antique Ormolu Clocks
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Ormolu
Portico clock
Located in Atlanta, GA
Superb gilt bronze portico clock signed M. Morer, Rue Dauphine, Paris. L Dalton signed by hand on the pendulum.
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19th Century French Antique Ormolu Clocks
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Ormolu
Garniture set
Located in Atlanta, GA
Very fine three piece garniture set, of gilt bronze and Rouge Griotte marble, the clock face signed Thiebaut Freres. The candelabra are 35 inches in heig...
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19th Century French Antique Ormolu Clocks
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Marble, Ormolu
French Empire Clock
Located in Hudson, NY
A very finely cast gilt bronze clock depicting Psyche at her toilet. The reflective mirror of polished bronze and that each element is cast separately then screwed on is an excellent...
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19th Century French Empire Antique Ormolu Clocks
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Ormolu
Large Clock Garniture Signed Houdon
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An exceptional large 19th century French figural clock set after a model by Jean Antoine Houdon. Mounted with a large bronze model of a cupid holding a gilt bow and arrow, upon a naturalistic base with flowers and doves, supported on a rouge marble and ormolu mounted circular base with inset clock. Each candelabra modeled with a sitting putti holding a branch with two lights in each hand, raised upon a circular ormolu mounted rouge marble base.
Signed: Houdon,
circa 1860
Dimesions:
Clock
Height 36? (91 cm)
Width 15? (38 cm)
Depth 20? (20 cm)
Candelabra
Height 26? (66 cm)
Width 12? (30 cm)
Depth 9? (22 cm)
Jean-Antoine Houdon a French neoclassical portrait...
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19th Century French Antique Ormolu Clocks
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Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Antique Figural Clock
Located in Atlanta, GA
Magnificent gilt bronze clock signed Barbadienne founder, rouge Royale marble base.
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Late 19th Century French Antique Ormolu Clocks
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Biedermeier Period Wood and Gilt Clock
Located in Montreal, QC
Austrian Biedermeier period gilt and polychromed wood clock. Chiseled gold Swiss movement, signed: P.Francois a' Nion.
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19th Century Austrian Biedermeier Antique Ormolu Clocks
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Ormolu
Figural Clock
Located in Atlanta, GA
Gilt bronze musical cherubs figural clock.
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19th Century French Antique Ormolu Clocks
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Ormolu
Signed French Louis XVI Mantle Clock
Located in New York, NY
A French white marble and gilt bronze mantel clock. Signed A. Paris on face.
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19th Century French Antique Ormolu Clocks
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Antique Charles X French Patinated Bronze and Ormolu Clock
Located in Kastrup, DK
French Charles X Empire period clock of borne shape in gilt ormolu and patinated bronze.
Fluted ormolu columns with capitals on each side of the dark patinated bronze case with white...
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Early 19th Century French Charles X Antique Ormolu Clocks
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Bronze, Ormolu
English Fusee Carriage Clock By Thomas Cole and James Fergusson Cole
By Thomas Cole (Clockmaker), James Cole
Located in Amersham, GB
An exceptional English fusee carriage clock timepeice by two of the nineteenth centuries greatest clock makers. The eight day single chain fusee movement with maintaining power and j...
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1830s English Early Victorian Antique Ormolu Clocks
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Steel, Ormolu
Louis XV bronze pendulum clock “Pendule au Sanglier”
Located in HAARLEM, NL
An extremely rare and important splendid Louis XV bronze pendulum clock “Pendule au Sanglier”, with half hour/hour self strike and musical movement with 9 tunes that activates on the...
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Early 18th Century French Antique Ormolu Clocks
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Bronze, Enamel, Ormolu
"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 Ormolu Clocks
Materials
Ormolu, Bronze
Louis XVI Neo-Classical Style Figural Ormolu Clock by Charpentier & Cie
Located in Pittsburgh, PA
This large and impressive clock is by the renown French Bronzier Lemerle Charpentier & Cie. It features Classical maidens holding a large urn form case surmounted by Cupid with his ...
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Late 18th Century French Neoclassical Antique Ormolu Clocks
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Ormolu
Fine and Large Antique French Ormolu Rococo Clock
By Samuel Marti
Located in Belper, Derbyshire
A substantial and very fine quality ormolu Rococo clock by Samuel Marti. Formed in finely gilded bronze, bold, sinuous scrolls and curves form the case with delicately modelled flora...
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19th Century French Rococo Antique Ormolu Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
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 Ormolu Clocks
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Ormolu
French 19th Century Ormolu White Marble Mantel Clock
Located in Rome, IT
Delicious French white marble ormolu mantel clock resting on four turned feet supporting an oval marble base with raised garland decoration. Two gracious cherubs are seated upon the ...
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1860s French Antique Ormolu Clocks
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Palatial & Rare Napoleon III French Ormolu and Patinated Bronze Clock, Detouche
By C. Detouche
Located in New York, NY
A palatial, extremely rare, and important Napoleon III French ormolu and patinated bronze regulateur de parquet clock, by Louis-Constantin Detouche, Paris, circa 1850.
The clock case made form the finest French ormolu, with 2 very large patinated bronze seated putti
The white enamel dial Signed C. DETOUCHE/ PARIS. The clock movement is numbered 7064 and stamped with maker’s stamps C. Detouche RUE st. MARTIN and C. DETOUCHE 158 R. St MARTIN 160, with medaille d’argent stamp, on a serpentine part ebonized mahogany plinth.
At over six feet tall, the present clock is impressive in scale and rare in Detouche’s oeuvre. While other large clocks were produced by the firm, few of this scale are so overtly decorative and usually incorporate greater mechanical complication. For example, a gilt bronze astronomical regulator clock...
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19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Ormolu Clocks
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Bronze, Ormolu
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 Ormolu Clocks
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Carrara Marble, Enamel, Ormolu
French Rouge Marble Gilt and Patinated Bronze Mantel Clock by Alfred Beurdeley
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A French Napoleon III Period Rouge Marble Gilt & Patinated Bronze Mantel Clock Alfred Emmanuel Louis Beurdeley
Movement marked: J. Lefebvre Fils Paris & Numbered1938
Movement stamped: Medaille De Bronze J. Marti & Cie & Numbered 92
Dial signed: A. Beurdeley Fila, Paris
France, Circa 1875
Dimensions: Height: 24" (61cm), Width: 22" (56cm) Depth: 11" (28cm)
Excellent Working Condition
Biography
French — Alfred Emmanuel Louis Beurdeley was a Parisian cabinetmaker who specialized in the manufacture of luxurious French furnishings...
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1870s French Napoleon III Antique Ormolu Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
Antique Ormolu Clocks for Sale on 1stDibs
Antique ormolu clocks and other decorative objects can be incorporated into a variety of spaces, and while demand for the material and/or technique was at its peak in Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries — older French ormolu clocks are especially coveted today — ormolu is still widely loved by contemporary designers and collectors.
What is ormolu?
Ormolu is a brilliant form of decorative trickery. To the untrained eye, ormolu clocks, jewelry boxes and other ormolu furniture and decor look like they're made of solid gold. But those in the know recognize ormolu — or elaborate bronze gilding — as having been essential to French design in the 18th and 19th centuries as a cornerstone of the neoclassical and Empire styles.
“Most commonly, ormolu refers to a bronze object that has been covered with gold, typically 18 karat or 24 karat,” explains Jamie Sinai, director of the antiques specialist Mayfair Gallery, in London. “For that reason, ormolu is sometimes called gilt bronze or, in French, bronze doré. Strictly speaking, however, the term ormolu also denotes the technique of applying gold to a metal.”
“The word comes from the French or moulu, which translates as ‘ground or powdered gold’ — the form the gold takes before it is applied to a metal surface.”
From the court of King Louis XVI to that of Napoleon I, the French elite snapped up furniture mounted with ormolu, as well as sconces, candelabra and table lamps made from the material.
If you're looking to bring a touch of this 19th-century pizzazz to your desk, an antique ormolu desk clock is a decorative touch that blends ornament and functionality. The clamor for desk clocks arose as the Industrial Revolution transitioned labor from outdoors to indoors, and allowed for the mass production of clock parts in factories. Naturally, elaborate designs soon followed and clocks could be found made by artisans and luxury houses like Cartier. Indeed, an ormolu clock is an object to be admired in your home as much as it is a necessary functional element. (This is part of the reason clocks make such superb collectibles!)
Today, antiques collectors and interior designers seek out the finest in antique ormolu clocks and continue to prize ormolu for its extraordinary craftsmanship and history-infused glamour.
“This wondrous material was highly sought after in France as the ultimate luxury. It magically resembled solid gold and sparkled under candlelight,” says Sinai.
Find antique ormolu desk clocks, wall clocks, mantel clocks and other furniture and decorative objects on 1stDibs.
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