Louis XVI Clocks
LOUIS XVI STYLE
Reflecting the final era of royal opulence before the upheaval of the French Revolution, antique Louis XVI furniture features more angular shapes than the Rococo curves of the Louis XV style, harkening back to the imposing grandeur of Louis XIV.
Dating between 1750 and 1800, an era that overlapped with the last king of France whose reign was cut short by the guillotine, Louis XVI furniture, known as the goût grec, is emblematic of the neoclassical revision that French furniture underwent during the second half of the 18th century.
Authentic Louis XVI furniture characteristics include clean lines and carved details such as scrolls and acanthus flourishes that were inspired by ancient Greece and Rome. This was informed by a burgeoning interest in antiquity in the 18th century, owing to new archaeological excavations at sites including Pompeii and Herculaneum. It largely eclipsed the more East Asian–influenced ornamentation of Louis XV for something more geometric and symmetrical.
The Louis XVI style was defined by what was being created for the palatial rooms at Versailles and Fontainebleau, particularly for the queen, with cabinetmaker Jean-Henri Riesener being a favorite of Marie-Antoinette’s for his luxurious pieces accented with gilded bronze and marquetry. Furniture maker Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené was also a major designer of the period, with his pieces for the royal residences adorned with giltwood and neoclassical touches like tapered columns for chair legs and laurel leaf carvings. Cabinetmaker Adam Weisweiler occasionally incorporated into his furniture porcelain panels produced by Sèvres, a popular manufacturer of European ceramics that served the crown with serveware, vases and other decorative objects.
Find a collection of antique Louis XVI seating, tables, cabinets and other furniture on 1stDibs.
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Style: Louis XVI
French wall pendulum "cartel d'alcove" Louis XVI case attributed Osmond
Located in Milano, IT
CARTEL D'ALCOVE MODEL CLOCK
Case attributable to the great bronzesmith Robert Osmond (maitre-fondeur on January 17, 1745) in gilded and chiseled bronze with applied bronzes represen...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Sevres style porcelain panelled mantle clock, circa 1890
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A fine quality late 19th Century French gilded ormolu mantel clock with hand painted Sevres style porcelain plaques, depicting beautiful maidens. Having a porcelain lidded urn to the...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
18th Century Bacchante Bronze Dore’ Mantel Clock
Located in New Orleans, LA
Louis XVI ormolu mantel clock depicting a Bacchanal figure with grapes above two seated cupids on patinated goats.
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Rare 18th Century Louis XVI Ormolu and White Marble Inclined Plane Mantel Clock
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
An extremely rare Louis XVI mantel clock 'a cremaillere', a movement driven by its own weight, where the moving drum barrel is running down an inclined whi...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Antique Late 18th Century Louis XVI Gilt Gold Patinated Bronze Mantel Clock
Located in London, GB
Antique Late 18th Century Louis XVI Gilt Gold Patinated Bronze Mantel Clock
French, Late 18th Century
Height 57cm, width 40cm, depth 12cm
A wonderful example of late 18th century ...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
French Louis XVI Style Gilt Wall Clock
Located in Queens, NY
French Louis XVI-style (19th Century) gilt carved wall clock with a swag design pediment centering a lion and a wreath form bottom. (Not working)
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
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Giltwood
Magnificent 19th Century clock in bronze with cupids pulling a chariot by rams
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A fine antiques french gilt bronze and marble base clock representing cupids pulling a chariot by rams.
the top of the clock is crowned by a cupid ...
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1880s French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Neoclassical 18th Century Ormolu and Marble Lyre Clock
Located in London, GB
Neoclassical 18th Century ormolu and marble lyre clock
French, Louis XVI period
Height 64m, width 27cm, depth 12cm
This exquisite mantel clock was ...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Marble, Ormolu, Bronze
21st Century, Hand Carved Amber Crystal and golden Bronze Clock
Located in Calenzano, FI
21st century Hand carved amber crystal and golden bronze clock. This clock is in hand-carved amber crystal and the dial is in white porcelain decorated in pure gold. On request to c...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
21st Century, white veined marble and Golden Bronze Clock
Located in Calenzano, FI
21st century white veined marble and golden bronze clock. This clock is finely chiseled lost wax castings. This clock has a mechanical 8 days wind movement and separate winding for a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
18th Century Louis XVI Cartel Clock By Le Nepveu
By Nicolas-Antoine Le Nepveu
Located in Amersham, GB
A rare 18th century ormolu cartel clock by Nicolas-Antoine Le Nepveu a Paris . This exceptional Cartel clock in a gilt bronze or Ormolu case still with its original mechanism. The 8 ...
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Enamel, Ormolu
Fannières Frères Desk Clock "Time Allegory" circa 1860
By Fannière Frères
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Fannières Frères Desk Clock Time Allegory
Chased gilt and silvered bronze Desk Clock
With an allegorical theme of Time in the form of a cherub suppor...
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1860s French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
$3,078 Sale Price
20% Off
Louis XVI Giltwood Barometer
Located in Kittery Point, ME
The white painted dial signed Cappy A Paris, 1773 within a laurel wreath carved case on a delicately carved flower entwined ribbon backplate ending in a tassel.
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Giltwood
$15,000
Mantel Clock 18th Century Styl Boulle by Josue Panier À Paris
Located in Warsaw, PL
This magnificent mantel clock is a testament to the exquisite craftsmanship and refined aesthetic of 18th-century French horology. Attributed to Josué Panier, a renowned clockmaker o...
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Mid-18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Monumental Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze and Marble Clock with Putti in the Clouds
Located in New York, NY
A fine Louis XVI-style large gilt-bronze and greige Rococo marble figural mantel clock is surmounted by three dore bronze putti figures hanging floral adornments among clouds with lo...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
French Ormolu Mantle Clock, Pendule 'Lit à Baldaquin', Paris, Around 1790
Located in Vienna, AT
Excellent fire-gilded Empire bronze mantel clock: structure in the form of a rectangular, stepped pedestal that tapers at the front corners, on four spindle feet, with relief ornamen...
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1790s French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Louis XVI Style Clock of the XIXth Century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Louis XVI style clock of the XIXth Century
Important clock of the XIXth century of Louis XVI style, in gilded bronze and porcelain.
Dimensi...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Bronze
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 Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Marble, Porphyry, Bronze, Ormolu
18th Century Louis XVI Marble Gilt Bronze Dancing Girl Pendule after Falconet
Located in Berlin, DE
18th century French Louis XVI marble gilt bronze dancing girl pendule after Falconet, signed "Courvoisier à Paris"
An 18th century French gilt ...
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1770s French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Carrara Marble, Bronze, Enamel
A French early 19th century Louis XVI st Ormolu white Carrara Gris St Anne clock
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A charming and most unique French early 19th century Louis XVI st. Ormolu, white Carrara, and Gris St. Anne marble clock. This adorable clock in the shape of a well is raised on a ci...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Carrara Marble, Ormolu
French Louis XVI Carved Giltwood Mercury Barometer
Located in Norwich, GB
Louis XVI carved giltwood and painted mercury wheel barometer.
Eight inch circular painted wood register dial with central rosette within the scale calibrated from 27-28-29 and ...
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1780s French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Giltwood
Louis XVI Style Lion Mask Wall Clock
Located in Warsaw, PL
“A Louis XVI style lion mask wall clock”
This fire gilt bronze Louis XVI style lion mask wall clock was one of the most outstanding masterpieces, which was originally made by Edme-J...
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Bronze
19th Century French Marble Mantel Clock, Louis XVI Style
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
19th century French marble mantle clock.
High quality black marble with red marble accents retailed by Glenny & Sons Co. Buffalo.
Free shipp...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Gilt & Patinated Bronze Clock with Eagle
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Magnificent Carrara Marble, Patinated Bronze and Gilt Bronze Clock in the Louis XVI Taste. Exquisite Chasing Workmanship. France, circa 1890.
Dimensions: Height 20" Width 16" Dep...
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1890s French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Carrara Marble, Bronze
19th Cent Marble and Bronze French Mantle, Bracket or Table Clock, Signed France
Located in Manhasset, NY
Marble and Bronze French Mantle, Bracket or Table Clock, France, Signed`
A charming casket shaped small clock having gilt bronze and marble form, working, artist signed and made in ...
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Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Carrara Marble, Bronze
French Louis XVI Style Bronze Mantel Clock
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality 19th century French gilded ormolu and bronze Louis XVI style mantel (fireplace) clock, have cloven hoofed putti supporting the clock, with Bacchus influenced deco...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
French 19th Century Gilt and Patinated Figural Clock
Located in Norwood, NJ
French 19th century Louis XVI style figural clock. Gilt and patinated putti on bronze base supporting ball form clock with porcelain dial.
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Gold Plate, Bronze
$2,906 Sale Price
40% Off
Louis XVI Style Marble Clock with Patinated Bronze Figures
Located in Miami, US
This exquisite Louis XVI-style clock is crafted from fine marble and adorned with patinated bronze figures that symbolize the study of art and science. The harmonious composition fea...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Louis Seize Mantel Clock in a Giltwood Case, End of 18th Century
Located in Greding, DE
Louis Seize mantel clock or pendule, housed in a gold-patinated wooden case featuring intricate openwork rings and a round clock case. The design depicts a young undressed woman lean...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Brass
French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Garniture Set, By Jacques Gudin
By Jacques-Gérôme Gudin
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A wonderful French 19th century Louis XVI st. Rouge Griotte marble, Ormolu, and patinated Bronze three piece garniture set, by Jacques Gudin, Paris, circa 1820. The elegant set inclu...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Superb Bronze and Marble Mantle Clock
Located in Atlanta, GA
A superb clock in the manner of Le Faucher (clocksmith for Louis XVI) signed J. B. Dutertre. Paris, France, circa 1880.
Dimensions: Height 19", width 14", ...
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1880s French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
French White Marble Clock Retailed by Tiffany, 19th Century
Located in Cypress, CA
Remarkable 19th century French Louis XVI style ormolu mounted white marble clock with love birds.
Retailed by Tiffany.
The clock is surmounted...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Marble, Ormolu, Enamel
Louis XVI Style Ormolu Bronze Mantle Clock After Louis Simon Boizot
Located in New York, US
Our Louis XVI style clock in the manner of Louis Simon Boizot (1743-1809) features the patinated figures of neoclassical standing females supporting...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Patinated Bronze Putto Seated on a Gilt Mantel Clock
Located in New York, NY
A Majestic patinated bronze putto seated on a gilt mantel clock.
Modelled with a seated putto holding two doves, the putto leaning over a gilt mantel clock with garland, surmounted ...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Marble, Ormolu, Bronze
19th Century Louis XVI-Styl Ormolu and White Marble Mantel Clock
Located in New York, NY
A Fine Louis XVI-Style Gilt Bronze and White Marble Mantel Clock
After a model by Étienne-Maurice Falconet
The urn-form pendule à cercles t...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Marble, Ormolu, Bronze
Etienne Falconnet "Musicians" Gilt Bronze Clock
Located in Astoria, NY
Louis XVI Style "Musicians" Polished Gilt Bronze Clock, after the model by Etienne Maurice Falconnet (French, 1716-1791), late 19th century, inscribed "Falconnet", on conforming blac...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Slate, Metal, Bronze
Louis XVI Allegorical Figurative Clock Depicting Venus Being Crowned by Amour
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A fine and rare model of a period Louis XVI white marble and gilt bronze mantel (fireplace) clock, the dial signed Dhemant A Paris. The clock features two large gilded classically dr...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Neoclassical Style Gilt Bronze and Malachite Mantel Clock
Located in London, GB
Neoclassical style gilt bronze and malachite mantel clock
French, late 19th Century
Measures: Height 47cm, width 19cm, depth 19cm
This wonderful Louis XVI style mantel clock is designed in malachite and gilt bronze—with the malachite being a later veneer. The clock takes after a famous original 1775 model by Brécourt, known as 'Vase pendule...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Malachite, Ormolu
19th Century Gilt Bronze and White Marble Portico Clock
Located in Warsaw, PL
This striking mantel clock is a true testament to the exquisite craftsmanship and refined aesthetic of the Empire period in 19th-century France. The clock showcases a harmonious blen...
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Marble, Gold Plate
Continental Patinated Bronze and Ormolu Clock, signed Imperial
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A handsome and most decorative Continental Turn of the Century Louis XVI st. Ormolu, Vert Antique marble and patinated Bronze clock, signed Imperial. The clock is raised on six Ormol...
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20th Century Unknown Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Bronze wall clock, Louis XVI style with a mask
Located in Autonomous City Buenos Aires, CABA
Bronze wall clock, Louis XVI style with a mask
Beautiful bronze clock from the late 19th century decorated with laurel wreaths on the sides, a mask of a woman at the bottom and a ter...
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20th Century French Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Very Fine Gilt Bronze Clock
Located in Atlanta, GA
A very fine gilt bronze clock depicting infant, cupid and psyche. An exquisite Louis XVI base. Signed Prosper Roussel.
Paris, France, circa 1900
Dime...
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Early 1900s French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Bronze
French 18th Century Louis XVI Period Ormolu and Marble Clock, Signed Déliau
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An incredible and extremely high quality French late 18th century Louis XVI period ormolu, white Carrara marble and black Belgian marble clock signed Déliau - Rue De La Bartillerie N...
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Belgian Black Marble, Carrara Marble, Ormolu
French Late 19 Century Pink Porcelain Cartel Clock Attributed to Samson and Cie
By Samson & Cie
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A finely decorated pink porcelain Cartel clock in the Louis XVI style; the predominantly pink case surmounted by a classical urn with goats heads and colored enamel swags. Below the ...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Porcelain
$2,800 Sale Price
37% Off
19th C. Patinated & Dore Bronze Hercules Clock on a Marble base, E. F. Caldwell
Located in New York, NY
An Marvelous Signed Caldwell 19th Century Patinated and Dore Bronze Hercules Clock on a Marble Mount. The clock features a Roman Numeral ormolu dial wi...
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1890s American Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
19th Century French Louis XVI Patinated Desk Clock with a Figure of a Boy
Located in Sofia, BG
19th century elegant antique desk or mantel clock dated circa 1860. The clock stands on curved feet and features a carved sculpture of a little boy and a bird. The intricate clock me...
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
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 Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Carrara Marble, Bronze
Japanese Woman Fire-Gilt Bronze Clock c. 1800
Located in 263-0031, JP
A French fire-gilt bronze clock with marble base depicting a Japanese woman, Louis XVI or Empire Era, 1790-1815. The silk-thread mechanis...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
$2,384 Sale Price
20% Off
Classical French Louis XVI Style Mantel Clock, 19th Century
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality 19th century French Louis XVI style gilded ormolu and marble mantel clock, depicting a mother and child after harvesting above an eight day duration chiming clock...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
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...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Carrara Marble, Bronze, Enamel
19th Louis XVI Style Marble Mantel Clock with Gilt Bronze
Located in Marseille, FR
19th Louis XVI style marble mantel clock with gilt bronze.
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1890s French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
French 19th Century Louis XVI St. White Carrara Marble Garniture Clock Set
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An impressive French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu mounted on white Carrara marble clock Garniture set. The three piece set includes a pair of two arm candelabras ormolu mounted with beads and C scrolled arms. The clock is ornamented with ormolu laurel garlands and an urn of prosperity above. The whole is raised on four marble columns...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Carrara Marble, Ormolu
Antique French Ormolu Clock and Candlesticks Set with Rouge Marble, Circa 1880's
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French exquisite quality Ormolu clock and candlesticks of Vatican rouge marble, circa 1875-1885
Clock measures 15” H x 10” W x 4 1/2” D
Candlestick measures 13” H x 7” W ...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
French 18th Century Louis XVI Period Oak Grandfather Clock
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A most elegant Danish 18th century Louis XVI period oak grandfather clock. The clock is raised by fine bun feet below a mottled finally carved foliate band. The case displays one doo...
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Oak
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 Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Late 19th Century Cut-Glass French Urn Mantel Clock
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A beautiful French cut-glass and gilded ormolu Louis XVI style urn mantel clock. Measures: 41cm (16") high. Having 'hobnail cut glass pattern, two scrolling handles with winged lion ...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
Neoclassical Louis XVI Period French Mantel Clock
Located in London, GB
Neoclassical Louis XVI period French mantel clock
French, late 18th century
Dimensions: Height 56cm, width 33cm, depth 9.5cm
Crafted from ormolu and a later malachite veneer, th...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Malachite, Enamel, Ormolu
Gilt Bronze Marble Clock and Candlesticks, Louis XVI Period
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Gilt bronze marble clock and candlesticks, Louis XVI period.
Dial signed: ”Charles Garriots à Paris”
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
French 19th Century Rococo Cartel Wall Clock, in the Louis XVI Style
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very impressive 19th century Louis XVI style gilded ormolu and patinated bronze sun burst cartel wall clock. Depicting cherubs among clouds and sun rays. The white enamel clock fac...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
A French 19th century Louis XVI st. clock signed Le Merle Charpentier Bronzier
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A most elegant French 19th century Louis XVI st. Rouge Griotte marble and ormolu mounted clock signed Le Merle Charpentier Bronzier, Paris Rue Charlot. The clock is raised b...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Clocks
Materials
Griotte Marble, Ormolu
Louis Xvi clocks for sale on 1stDibs.
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