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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Italian Neoclassical Parcel-Gilt Clock
Located in New York, NY
Italian neoclassical parcel-gilt clock. Roman military Empire period mantel clock of obelisk form topped by an extraordinary eagle with outstretched wings on a red orb, above gilt-ca...
Category
Italian Empire Antique 18th Century and Earlier Clocks
Materials
Metal
Rare French 18th Century Louis XV Vernis Martin Cartel Clock by Festeau le Jeune
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
The clock case decorated overall with very fine ‘Vernis Martin’ lacquer paint with floral sprays and garlands. The waisted case with pierced foliate bronze mounts and surmounted by a foliate finial with a bird. On scroll feet, the bracked conformingly mounted and decorated with a scene with dogs. A fine three week going movement, striking half and full hours on a silvered bronze bell. Festeau Le Jeune became master in 1769. Clock case and bracket are stamped by the ebenist ‘A. Gosselin’ (Antoine Gosselin 1731-1794, Paris, master in 1752), as well as the stamp of the Parisian gilt ‘JME’.
In French interior design, Vernis Martin is a type of lustrous lacquer substitute widely used in the 18th century to decorate a wide variety of items from furniture and coaches to such personal articles as fans and snuffboxes. The technique was named after the French brothers Guillaume and Etienne-Simon Martin, who perfected the process, but covers work by other craftsmen as well. Highly praised by Voltaire, it was developed to imitate East Asian lacquerware...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 18th Century and Earlier Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Louis XVI White Marble and Gilt-Bronze Mantle Clock
Located in Berlin, DE
Louis XVI white marble and gilt bronze marble clock, the white enamel dial with Arabic numerals within a lyra-shaped marble case surmounted by pi...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Clocks
Materials
Carrara Marble, Bronze, Enamel
Louis XV Period Gilded Barometer with Thermometer
Located in Pembroke, MA
An elegant French gilded wood barometer with thermometer (period Louis XV, Circa 1760). Barometer has been fitted with a new mercury tube, ...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 18th Century and Earlier Clocks
Materials
Giltwood, Glass
George II Parcel-Gilt Scarlet-Japanned Chinoiserie Table Clock by William Creak
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This English George II period 18th century table clock consists in a scarlet-japanned and parcel-gilt rectangular case with elaborate chinoiserie decoration and pierced frets to the sides. Resting on a molded base with a shaped apron and bracket feet, the case presents an inverted bell top with a brass fold-down handle flanked by four vase-shaped finials as well as a foliate engraved backplate. The door opens on a break arch brass dial featuring a Roman chapter ring with Arabic minutes, nicely laid out with gilt foliate corner spandrels and a subsidiary strike/silent dial within the arch. The matted centre presents a date aperture as well as the signature of the well-known British clockmaker William...
Category
English George II Antique 18th Century and Earlier Clocks
Materials
Brass
Scandinavian 18th Century Folk Art Carved Watch Holder
Located in Copenhagen, K
Very beautiful and original painted Folk Art watch holder, made for the pocket watch when you were not wearing it.
Category
Danish Folk Art Antique 18th Century and Earlier Clocks
Materials
Wood
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...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Clocks
Materials
Carrara Marble, Enamel, Ormolu
A Rare 18th Century Ormolu Desk Clock by Etienne Le Noir, Paris
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This French Louis XV ormolu bronze clock, crafted by Etienne Le Noir A Paris in the 18th century, is a testament to exquisite craftsmanship. The metal dial, featuring a blend of Roma...
Category
French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Period Louis XVI Bronze Dore' Clock
Located in New Orleans, LA
Important Louis XVI mantle clock with exceptional bronze detail and chasing.
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Albert Baillon Bronze Dorè Architects Winding Clock
By Jean-Baptiste Albert Baillon III
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Very handsome moulded bronze dorè mantel clock, glass door covered dial with roman numerals and numbered quarter hour points, reverse door with interior pierced cover plate and signed mechanism; "Albert Baillon A Paris" mounted atop a fluted Roman column with laurel surround and swag beneath on a rectangular base with well articulated architects tools...
Category
French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Clocks
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...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Clocks
Materials
Carrara Marble, Bronze
German Mahogany Tall Case Flute Clock
By A. Belokopytoff
Located in Hollywood, SC
German mahogany tall case flute clock with original painted ,gilt, and porcelain dial surrounded by original hand blown glass. The upper section has four ...
Category
German Antique 18th Century and Earlier Clocks
Materials
Mahogany
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...
Category
French Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
Swedish 18th Century Rococo Carved Giltwood Wall Clock
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
A superb 18th century Swedish giltwood wall clock with eight day movement, signed by the clockmaker: "Rundelius Stockholm" (Anders Rundeliu...
Category
Swedish Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Clocks
Materials
Giltwood
18th Century Viennese Dark Green Painted and Giltwood Mantle Clock
Located in Berlin, DE
18th century Viennese dark green painted and giltwood pendule of unusual size in the form of a classical urn, the gilt-bronze dial with Roman numerals, surmounted by giltwood flowers...
Category
Austrian Empire Antique 18th Century and Earlier Clocks
Materials
Giltwood, Wood
A Fine Louis XVI Marble & Gilt Bronze Clock by Jean Corrier
By Jean Corrier
Located in Sheffield, MA
A Fine Louis XVI
Marble & Gilt Bronze Clock
18th Century
Signed Corrier A Paris
A large Louis XVI ormolu French clock by Corrier à Paris. The symmetrical case has numer...
Category
French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Clocks
Rare Louis XVI Period Enamel and Gilt Bronze Clock
Located in Montreal, QC
Rare Louis XVI period enamel and gilt bronze clock on a black marble base.
Category
French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Clocks
Materials
Bronze
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...
Category
French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Clocks
Materials
Bronze, Enamel, Ormolu
Unrestored French Lantern Clock, Early 18th Century
Located in Greven, DE
Unrestored French lantern clock with alarm clock from the early 18th century.
Pendulum and weights are present.
This clock needs restoration!
H ...
Category
French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Clocks
Materials
Brass
French Louis XVI 'cercle a tournant' clock
Located in HAARLEM, NL
Very unusual and important finely chased and gilt French Pendule ’Cercle a tournant’. Louis XVI circa 1780.
This ‘Cercle a tournant’ clock symbolising THE ALTAR OF VENUS .
The revolving dial indicates hours in Arabic numbers alternated with finely cut and assembled paste rosettes.
Mounted in a tuncated column decorated with a ribbon-tied laurel torus, a leaf frieze and a shield whose medallion at one bore engraved initials surmounted by a German Prince’s crown...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
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...
Category
French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Clocks
Materials
Bronze
18th Century Moon Phase Dial Bracket Clock by Trewinnard of London
By Joshua Trewinnard of London
Located in Madrid, ES
This is a fully-functioning late 18th century English bracket clock by Joshua Trewinnard of London. The moon phase dial was useful i...
Category
English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Clocks
Materials
Brass
END OF THE 18th CENTURY NEOLASSIC WOODEN CLOCK WITH GOLD FINISHES
Located in Firenze, FI
This carved wooden clock is an example of excellent craftsmanship typical of Italy in the Neoclassical period, around 1790. The carved wood used to make it was skillfully carved by s...
Category
Italian Neoclassical Revival Antique 18th Century and Earlier Clocks
Materials
Wood
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 ...
Category
French Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
Louis Seize Mantel Clock, Southern, Germany, circa 1780
Located in Greding, DE
Louis Seize pendulum with enamelled dial with Roman hours and Arabic minutes in a carved wooden case with gold-patinated elements.
Category
German Antique 18th Century and Earlier Clocks
Materials
Wood
Important Etienne LeNoir Clock 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Important ETIENNE LENOIR Clock 18th century
French, 18th century
in chiseled and gilded bronze.
Mythological decoration representing the triumph of Neptune.
Enamel dial with R...
Category
French Napoleon III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Mantel Clock 18th Century Louis XV Period by Dupasquier À Paris
Located in Warsaw, PL
The outstanding mantel clock is in the style of Louis XV – Louis Seize (1774-1792). Royal breath appears in each motif. Almost the entire upper part of the clock is inlaid with ormol...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 18th Century and Earlier Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Unusual Pair of Gustavian Corner Clock Cabinets, Origin Mora, Sweden, Circa 1780
Located in New York, NY
Unusual pair of Gustavian corner clock cabinets, origin: Mora, Sweden, circa 1780
Each cabinet with matching working, tall case clocks decorated with four fluted diamond patterns an...
Category
Swedish Gustavian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Clocks
Materials
Wood, Paint
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 ...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Clocks
Materials
Carrara Marble, Enamel, Ormolu
Swedish 18th Century Birchwood Clock with Rectangular Head with Black Accents
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Swedish 18th century birchwood clock with rectangular head, circa 1765. This clock retains it's original metal face, hands and movement. This clock features beautiful birch wood, ...
Category
Swedish Antique 18th Century and Earlier Clocks
Materials
Pewter
18th Century Satinwood Bracket Clock by Thomas Wright of Poultry London
Located in Devon, GB
A fine and rare late 18th century George III period satinwood bracket clock of unusually large proportions, by Thomas Wright of Poultry in London, who was 'Watch-maker to the King.'
...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Clocks
Materials
Satinwood
“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...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Chased Gilt Bronze Rocaille Louis XV Cartel by Viger, Case Attributed to Osmond
By François Viger
Located in Paris, FR
François Viger, reçu maître horloger reçu maître en 1744
Case Attributed to Robert Osmond (1711-1789),
reçu maître fondeur en janvier 1746
Im...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 18th Century and Earlier Clocks
Materials
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...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier 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...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Clocks
Materials
Bronze
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