Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
EMPIRE STYLE
From 1804–15, Napoléon I reigned as the emperor of France, bringing the country into a new era of opulence after the fall of the monarchy and the tumultuous years of the French Revolution. He declared, “We must have very solid things, made to last 100 years.” Empire-style furniture followed suit, with imposing pieces constructed from mahogany and adorned with gilded ornaments. Expanding on the neoclassicism popularized in the previous century — such as in Louis XVI style — Empire style borrowed from the great civilizations of antiquity, from Egypt to Greece and Rome, to connect this nascent empire to the power of the past.
Napoléon I believed the production of fine furniture would reflect the stature of the republic, with his official architects Charles Percier and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine leading the way with their work on his residences.
Luxurious materials, symmetrical shapes and bold colors characterize antique Empire-style bedroom furniture, armchairs, cabinets and other structures, with frequent motifs including mythological creatures, geometric designs, acanthus leaves, eagles, bees (the imperial emblem) and swans, a favorite of Empress Joséphine.
Flat surfaces, like marble tabletops, were accented with decadent details, such as the bronze furniture mounts made by sculptor Pierre-Philippe Thomire for the French palaces. Martin-Guillaume Biennais, who worked as the imperial goldsmith, crafted intricate luxury objects that mixed wood, fine metal, mother-of-pearl and ivory. Ormolu — or elaborate bronze gilding — was essential to French design in the 18th and 19th centuries as a cornerstone of the neoclassical and Empire styles.
The style became popular abroad, influencing the American Empire style. Stately pieces carved with sprigs of olives by cabinetmaker Pierre-Antoine Bellange were acquired by American President James Monroe for the White House in 1817.
Find a collection of antique Empire tables, lighting, seating and other furniture on 1stDibs.
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Style: Empire
19th Century Gold French Empire Gilded Bronze Table Clock, Antique Pendule
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A gold, antique French table clock, pendulum made of hand crafted fire-gilded bronze, in good condition. The circular enamel dial of the Pa...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Metal, Bronze
French Directoire Bronze Skeleton Clock
Located in Rome, IT
Extremely fine quality Directoire/Empire gilt bronze mounted gilt brass skeleton clock with enameled chapter ring and openwork movement. Roman numerals for the hours and outer half...
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1790s French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
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Ormolu
Amazing Napoleon III Clock Empire French 19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Amazing Napoleon III Clock Empire French 19th Century
50cm x 26cm x 15cm
good condition
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19th Century French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
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Bronze
$1,236 Sale Price
20% Off
Empire Ormolu and Patinated Bronze Figural Clock
Located in Kittery Point, ME
In the form of a putto with a wheel barrow carrying a keg mounted with a clock face topped by a crane, on a rectangular chased plinth ending in bun feet.
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Early 19th Century French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
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Bronze
$8,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Gilt Bronze Table Clock « the Gardener Angel » French Work, Circa 1805
Located in Marcq-en-Barœul, Hauts-de-France
"L''Amour jardinier" is a gilt bronze table clocks with a garden angel and garden decors.
The garden angel is on a scale and catches a butterfly. The m...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
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Bronze
$5,408 Sale Price
30% Off
Gilt French Empire Table Clock, Early 1800s
Located in New York, NY
A French Empire table clock, first half of the 19th century.
Measures: Width 30, depth 11, height 38 cm. Key included.
Later added hatch at back. F...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Brass
Antique French Empire bronze and marble watch holder - 19th century
Located in GRENOBLE, FR
Antique French Empire watch holder, early 19th century circa 1820.
The watch holder allows conversion of an open faced pocket watch in to a desk cl...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Siena Marble, Bronze
$802 Sale Price
25% Off
French 19th Century Empire Portico Clock
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
This elegant period Empire ormolu-mounted white marble portico clock, circa 1830, is from France. The floral-and-foliate ormolu-mounted frieze sits above four Doric columns with gilt...
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1830s French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Marble
19th Century Gold French Empire Gilded Bronze Table Clock, Antique Pendulum
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A gold, antique French table clock, pendulum made of hand crafted fire-gilded bronze, in good condition. The circular enamel dial of the Pa...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Empire Gilt and Patinated Bronze Clock
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Modelled as a potted flower, the pot decorated with gilt bronze classical figures. With an 18th century English movement.
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19th Century Austrian Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Empire Style Gilt Bronze Clock from the 19th Century.
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Empire style gilt bronze clock from the 19th century.
19th century Empire style gilt bronze clock with porcelain dial, minor restoration to the porcelain to be expected, movement to...
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19th Century French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
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Bronze
19th Century French Empire Clock
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19th Century finely chased and cast dore bronze mantle clock. Porcelain dial in excellent condition. Signed "Millet." Original pendulum. Don't have original key, but can have one made.
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19th Century French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Exquisite French Empire Ormolu and Cut-Crystal Clock, c. 1815
Located in Queens, NY
An exquisite French Empire ormolu and cut-crystal clock, c. 1815, attributed to Baccarat.
Made from the finest quality mercury gilding ormolu, this c...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Crystal, Ormolu
Set Vase Clock 19th Century Style Empire
Located in Warsaw, PL
This Etruscan vase-shaped mantel clock cast from bronze with gilded elements and brown patina originated from the first half of the nineteenth century. The Empire style was based on ...
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19th Century French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Bronze
$6,954 / set
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 outs...
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Late 18th Century Italian Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Metal
French Empire Ormolu Mantel Clock by Deverberie a Paris, Fire-Gilded
Located in Berlin, DE
French Empire mantel clock from DeVerberie a Paris.
Fire-gilded.
Age-related condition.
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19th Century Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Bronze
$6,181 Sale Price
20% Off
French Early 19th Century Empire Gilt Bronze Mantel Clock by Claude Galle
By Claude Galle
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
Claude Galle, (1759–1815, master in 1786) is one of the most renowned bronziers active during the Napoleonic period, such as Pierre-Philippe Thomire, André-Antoine Ravrio and Louis-S...
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Early 1800s French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
French early 19th century Empire st. white Carrara marble and Ormolu clock
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A charming and high quality French early 19th century Empire st. white Carrara marble and Ormolu clock, signed Veibel a Lyon. This stunning clock is raised on Ormolu topie shaped feet supporting a rectangular marble base. The base is decorated with finely chased Ormolu plaques on three sides, in the manner of Clodion, and with delicate beaded frames. Standing on the base are four Ormolu Doric columns leading up to the Carrara marble entablature decorated with Ormolu pegasi and finely chased beaded trim bands. From the entablature hangs the enameled clock face and mechanism, adorned with a delicate Ormolu frame and richly chased hanging drapery featuring a foliate movements, mythical creatures, and a lovely female mask atop the wonderful sunburst pendulum. All original gilt throughout.
Veibel a Lyon, also known as "Weibel", was an 18th century master clock maker based in Lyon, France. Established in 1783, Veibel began his career by crafting exceptional table clocks and pocket watches. Later he specializes in astronomical regulators...
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19th Century French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
French Empire Period Marble and Ormolu Clock, Early 19th Century
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
Early 19th century French Empire period marble and ormolu clock.
French Carrara marble Portico clock with extensive ormolu fretwork mounted on two finely decorated marble columns ...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
$10,795 Sale Price
20% Off
French Ormolu Table Clock, Bacchant Sitting On Wine Barrel, Paris, Around 1840
Located in Vienna, AT
Fire-gilded bronze table clock: a childlike bacchanal seated on a wine barrel under an arched vine arbour, holding grapes and a wine glass in his hands, on an oval base with an appli...
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1840s French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Bronze
French Empire Bronze Mantle Clock
Located in Essex, MA
Of majestic scale with the ormolu gilding in very good condition in working order.
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1810s French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Bronze
19th-Century Flame Mahogany Mantel Clock by Breguet Raised by Lion Paw Feet
Located in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
An extremely rare mantel clock with a figured mahogany-veneered case by A-L Breguet
Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747-1823), who was of Swiss origin, is undoubtedly the most celebrated clockmaker of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in France. He is responsible for the invention of the self-winding watch, the tourbillon and the sympathetic watch ( a watch that is placed in a cradle of a special clock. It is then linked by means of a pin fixed behind the clock dial. Built into the motion work which, when released by the clock, automatically sets the hands to the clock's time as well as correcting the watch's regulator necessitated by any degree of inaccuracy registered at the moment of synchronisation) and many other horological improvements and developments. Around the year 1807 Breguet brought in his son, Antoine-Louis (born 1776), as a business partner, and from this point, the firm became known as Breguet et Fils. Breguet had previously sent his son to London to study with the great English chronometer maker John Arnold...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Brass
19th Century French Empire Style Portico Clock
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
19th century French Empire style portico clock.
This e Empire style clock features Carrara marble, bevelled glass, bronze accents and a crystal r...
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19th Century French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
$3,995 Sale Price
20% Off
Seated Female Figure in French Fire-Gilt Clock from Empire Era
Located in 263-0031, JP
A French fire-gilt clock depicting a seated female figure - Urania, I presume, judging from the iconography. Empire Era, 1800-1815. The gilding sh...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Ormolu clock : allegory of spring, 19th century circa 1815 - 1820
Located in GRENOBLE, FR
French Empire ormolu mantel clock showing an allegory of spring, early 19th century fine work, Restauration period circa 1815 - 1820 (Restauration period).
Beautiful chiseled model d...
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1810s French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Ormolu, Bronze, Enamel
19th Century French Empire Dore Bronze Clock
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19th century French Empire doré bronze clock, France, 1880s.
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Late 19th Century French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Bronze
19th Century (Early) French Clock Marble & Ormolu
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
19th Century (Early) French Clock Marble & Ormolu
Unique clock purchased in France. Gorgeous Marble. impeccable condition.
See Detailed Pics.
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Early 19th Century French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
French Empire Pendulum In Gilt Bronze Early 1800s With Putti and Bookcase
Located in Milano, MI
French Empire gilt bronze pendulum dating from the early 1800s, charming table clock with allegory of the Arts, arched case, flanked by two putti, one seated with a book and the oth...
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Early 19th Century Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Bronze
19th Century, French Chiselled and Gilt Bronze Table Clock
Located in IT
19th century, French chiselled and gilt bronze table clock
This table clock was made of chiselled and gilded bronze in the early 19th centur...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Bronze
19th Century French Flame Mahogany Napoleon Empire Period Mantel Clock
Located in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
A superb 19th century French Flame Mahogany Napoleon Empire Period Egyptian style Mantel Clock
This clock was produced in the Fr...
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19th Century French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Brass
Empire Era Fire-Gilt Bronze Clock Representing a Figure in Neo-Egyptian Style
Located in 263-0031, JP
A French patinated and fire-gilt clock depicting a standing figure in the neo-Egyptian style, Empire Era, 1800-15. The silk-thread mechanism is in good working condition with key and...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Bronze
$1,984 Sale Price
20% Off
Gilt and Patinated Bronze Mantel Clock, Machine Signed L. Moinet, France
By Louis Moinet
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Gilt and patinated bronze mantel clock, machine signed L. Moinet A Paris. France, early 19th century.
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Early 19th Century French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Clock Empire Clock in Siena Marble
Located in Madrid, ES
XIX CENTURY CLOCK EMPIRE CLOCK IN SIENA MARBLE AND DECORATED WITH BRONZE. SUSPENSION MECHANISM WITH FILE. COMPLETE WITH ITS KEY AND PENDULUM. MEASURES: 45 CM HIGH
good condition.
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19th Century French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
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Marble
$951 Sale Price
20% Off
French Portico Clock Signed Cellier à Paris, 19th Century
Located in Greding, DE
Small portico clock made of gray marble with gilded applications. The cylindrical movement is enclosed between two columns, above which a figural top piece in the form of a seated Ch...
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19th Century French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Enamel
Mantel Clock for the Ottoman Market – Gilt and Silvered Bronze
Located in Madrid, ES
Elegant French mantel clock in gilt and silvered bronze, made in the early 1800s for the Ottoman market. It depicts an oriental rider armed with a saber, on a rearing horse, in a typ...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
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Bronze
$4,070 Sale Price
20% Off
Superb Quality Bronze Ebonized French Empire Ormulu Mounted Figural Clock
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
This is an absolutely breathtaking bronze figural clock showing a young man, a lizard or gecko, and various motifs including musical instruments and various other designs. The contra...
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Early 1900s French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Bronze
$4,680 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century Gilt Brass Table Mantle Clock
Located in New York, NY
Early 19th century gilt brass mantle clock with the glass hood. Decor of foliage, arrows, and bow. Crowned by an angel with lyre. The glas dome has protected it beautifully and it is...
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Early 19th Century European Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
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Bronze
Large French Empire Period Gilt Bronze Figural Mantel Clock of Exceptional Quali
Located in Benington, Herts
A large and impressive French Empire period gilt bronze mantel clock of exceptional quality and colour.
French (possibly retailed in Italy) - Circa 1820.
The finely chased and original gilt bronze case depicting Orpheus playing his lyre with an eight-day bell striking movement, outside countwheel, backplate initialled and numbered 'A C D 1516’.
The dial with Roman numerals and inscribed Riccardo Pacinoti of Lavourne. It is a French movement (silk suspension) striking the hour and half hour. The case in the form of an oblong pillar cast with anthemium and cornucopia beneath a draped urn and a laurel wreath, flanked by the figure of Orpheus playing his lyre, the stepped plinth cast with wonderfully detailed underworld scenes, on leaf scroll feet.
In excellent condition the clock case has been cleaned with the movement completely overhauled and serviced to the highest standard by a specialist restorer.
In general 19th century French bronze clocks...
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1820s French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
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Bronze
Raingo Frères Louis XVI Style Table Clock in Alabaster & Gilded Bronze, 1800
Located in Milano, MI
French Louis XVI style table clock in alabaster and gilded bronze, made by Raingo Frères Paris in 1800
Measures: Ø cm 24 Ø cm 14 h cm 46.
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1880s French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
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Alabaster, Bronze
$4,516 Sale Price
20% Off
French Portico Clock – Black and White Marble, Gilt Bronze – Early 19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Refined French Empire-style portico clock, dating from the early 1800s, in black and white marble, richly adorned with finely chiseled gilt bronze. The enameled dial with Roman numer...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
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Marble, Bronze
$2,586 Sale Price
20% Off
EARLY 19th CENTURY VIENNESE EMPIRE CLOCK
Located in Firenze, FI
Beautiful clock in walnut root, enriched with maple fillets and with an ebonized wooden base. The decoration of the clock features gilded bronze friezes, inspired by classical elemen...
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Early 19th Century Austrian Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Clock Pendulum Empire France
Located in New York, NY
Table pendulum clock made in France during the empire period, 1790-1810. Made from gilt bronze. Depicting a man holding a cornucopia.
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Early 19th Century French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Early 19th Century French Empire Period Gilt Bronze Figural Clock
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
Early 19th century French Empire period gilt bronze figural clock.
Free shipping within the United States and Canada.
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Early 19th Century French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
$11,195 Sale Price
20% Off
19th c, French Empire Table Clock
Located in Allerum, SE
19th century French, Charles X bronze, brass and sienna marble table clock from the Empire period. Signed Ravrio Bronzier, ca 1820 France.
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Early 19th Century French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Marble, Metal, Brass, Bronze
Table Clock Empire France
Located in New York, NY
A table clock made in France during the Empire 1790-1820. Made from blackened wood and burnt-gilt bronze. Godronned urn-formation, lion mascarons, pine cone all Empire attributes
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1790s French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Empire Bronze Fire-Gilded Pendule
Located in Berlin, DE
Great bronze pendulum. Base and pedestal with lavish floral and figurative embellishments such as rocaille, acanthus leaves, cartouches, garlands, putti and central masks. Additional...
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19th Century French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
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Bronze
$2,548 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique French Empire Ormolu Striking Library Clock
Located in London, GB
A fascinating Antique French Empire Striking Ormolu mantel clock
A fascinating clock in the form of a library bookcase, with two children sitting at each side. Raised on a plinth ...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
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Steel, Ormolu
Table Clock Empire Period France
Located in New York, NY
A mantel clock made during the Empire period 1790-1820 in France. Made from burnished gilt bronze. The Greek God Apollo is playing the lyre with his feet resting on a guilded stool.
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1790s French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
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Bronze
EARLY 19th CENTURY FRENCH PORCELAIN CLOCK
Located in Firenze, FI
Elegant biscuit watch with an allegory of pure love. The spring-loaded watch features an enamelled dial with double Arabic and Roman numerals, and a crown set with zircons cut like d...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
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Porcelain
Wonderful French Empire Dore and Patinated Bronze Cherub Putti Wreath Clock
Located in Roslyn, NY
A wonderful French Empire doré and patinated bronze Cherub Putti wreath clock, not currently in working order, back cover is missing as is bel...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Birth of the King of Rome, Bronze Clock, 19th Century
Located in MARSEILLE, FR
Patinated bronze clock representing The Birth of the King of Rome or the allegory of the Birth of Love
Empress Marie-Louise is standing near a cradle filled with roses with a winged cupid in the middle; decor of an Athenian woman with rams' heads and a curtain draped...
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19th Century French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Bronze
19th Century French Empire Style Fire Gilded Bronze Mantle Clock
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
19th century French Empire style fire gilded bronze mantel clock.
French fire gilded bronze mantel clock with separate bronze base and po...
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19th Century French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Empire Style Table Clock and Inkwell
Located in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Empire style table clock and inkwell
Origin France Circa 1900
The watch has a Paris machine and it works
Golden bronze and Onix materials
Very good general condition
the marble ...
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Early 1900s French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
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Bronze
$1,440 Sale Price
20% Off
IMPORTANT EMPIRE TABLE CLOCK 19th Century Émile Gallé
By Émile Gallé
Located in Madrid, ES
IMPORTANT EMPIRE TABLE CLOCK 19th Century Émile Gallé
19th century French.
in gilded bronze, surmounted by birds.
Profusely enamelled circular dial with Roman numerals.
Relief d...
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19th Century French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Bronze
$6,229 Sale Price
20% Off
Viennese Empire Portal Clock With Caryatids And Gilded Fittings, Around 1810
Located in Vienna, AT
Complete Vienna clock on six stocky ball feet made of alabaster, architecturally structured wooden case with fruitwood veneers in the shape of a portal, steps in front flanked by two...
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1810s Austrian Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Alabaster, Brass
Empire period gilt bronze clock with Cupid and Psyche by Le Roy et fils
Located in London, GB
This beautiful mantel clock was crafted in c.1810 by the famous Parisian clock-making firm, Le Roy et fils. The company was founded by Basile Charles Le...
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1810s French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Enamel, Ormolu, Bronze
Clock in Gilt Bronze, Empire Period
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Clock in chiselled and gilt bronze composed by a rectangular base on which stand the dial-plate and a statuette of Bacchus. Round dial-plate with Roman numbers off-center on the righ...
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19th Century European Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Empire Mantel Clock by H.Robert-Horloger De La Reine, Paris, circa 1820
Located in Madrid, ES
An Empire Mantel Clock by H.Robert-Horloger De La Reine, Paris, date circa 1820-1830
A superb Empire gilt and patinated bronze mantel clock of eight day duration signed on the white enamel dial H.Robert-Horloger a la Reine . The dial with Roman numerals and gilded steel Breguet style hands for the hours and minutes. The movement with anchor escapement, silk thread suspension, striking on a single bell, with outside count wheel. The extremely fine case featuring the standing figure of Urania, Muse of Astronomy holding a pen in her left hand which points to a star-studded globe adorned with the signs of the zodiac around its circumference, the globe set on the back of four putti upon a plinth, containing the dial with a serpent-wrapped
Paris, date circa 1820-30
Height 73 cm, width 50cm, depth 22 cm.
In addition to the above prestigious locations, clocks of this model can be found at Warsaw Castle and in the Bayerischen Nationalmuseum, Munich. The Parisian clockmaker Bailly (d. after 1818) was one of the finest of his day and as such earned the title of Horloger de LL. MM. II. Et RR (Clockmaker to Their Imperial and Royal Majesties). Working from rue de Richelieu he was with Lepaute one of the main suppliers to the Garde-Meuble. Bailly, who retired in 1818 had the responsibility of maintaining the clocks at Compiègne and the Trianons and is known to have used cases by the leading Parisian bronziers including Pierre-Philippe Thomire and Claude Galle as well as Ferdinand Schwerdfeger who supplied him with a case for a regulator surmounted by a star-studded and zodiac banded globe...
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19th Century French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Bronze
$13,314 Sale Price
32% Off
Important Pendulum in Gilded Bronze and Onyx, 19th Century
By France"
Located in Madrid, ES
Important pendulum in gilded bronze and onyx from the nineteenth century.
The enamel dial.
Made for the russian market.
Large: 60 x 55 x 18 cm..
With pendulum and key 6550 euros.
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19th Century French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Bronze
$6,324 Sale Price
20% Off
Early 19th Century Empire Mantel Clock by Ledure with Apollo or Eros
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
The clock is signed on the enamel dial by the famous Parisian bronzier ”Ledure Bronzier à Paris” and the clockmaker ”Hedon Hr" (horloger). Patinated and fully sculpted bronze figure ...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Empire table clocks and desk clocks for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Empire table clocks and desk clocks for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the Mid-20th Century, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage table clocks and desk clocks created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include decorative objects, serveware, ceramics, silver and glass and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, bronze and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Empire table clocks and desk clocks made in a specific country, there are Europe, France, and Austria pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original table clocks and desk clocks, popular names associated with this style include Europa Antiques, Breguet a Paris, Coduri of Lyon, France, and Bradley & Hubbard. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for table clocks and desk clocks differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $445 and tops out at $102,428 while the average work can sell for $7,116.
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