Louis XV Style Porcelain Clock Attributed Samson & Cie, France, Circa 1880

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...

Important porcelain planter and decorative dish attributed to Samson & Cie. They are decorated with golden and red friezes of intertwined lotus, fruits and flower cups, fans and two...

Pair of Louis XVI style baluster shaped covered vases attributed to Samson & Cie, made in porcelain with green background and gold dots, flanked by two applied handles made of white ...

Signed on the dial F. Berthoud Paris. Important gilded and patinated clock representing Cupid holding a drape which discovers a dial placed on a truncated fluted column. He points out his attributes, a torch and a quiver, supported by a flowery cloud. The nicely enameled dial indicates with a blued steel hand the day and with two openwork gilded bronze hands the hours and minutes. It’s signed by F. Berthoud Paris. It rests on a rectangular base in « vert de mer » marble, underlined in the upper part by a double frieze in gilded bronze with flower and interlacing patterns, and in the lower part by a frieze of acanthus leaves. Ending on four large feet in gilded bronze. The signature on the dial evokes Ferdinand Berthoud (1727-1807), Swiss clock...

Charming veneered wood and gilded bronze Louis XV style table attributed to J.E. Zwiener, with an elegant "bois de bout" floral marquetry on the serpentine tray and on the two drawer...

Charming clock set comprising a clock in patinated and gilded bronze, composed a winged putto holding by a ribbon an enameled dial signed Brulfer Paris ...

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 ...

A breathtaking antique French Belle Époque period (1871-1914) porcelain mounted mixed metal mantel clock. Born in France in the late 19th / early 20th century, fine quality Parisian work, exceptionally executed in luxuriously opulent 18th century Louis XV Rocaille taste, finished on all sides so it can be placed anywhere in the room, featuring a visually striking sculptural floral fiolate adorned gilt metal case, heavily embellished with fine porcelain flowers...

A fine 19th century french Louis XV style ormolu-mounted mahogany grandfather clock, having wonderful gilded ormolu mounts, with three cherubs in clouds around the white and black en...

French Louis XV-style (19th Century) large bronze dore wall clock with two figures on top and floral trim. (Not working)

A very fine and most attractive 19th century French Louis XV Rococo Style ormolu and porcelain mantle clock, modelled as an urn with floral finial and goat head masks to the sides, o...

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...