Louis XV Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
LOUIS XV STYLE
The style of 18th-century French furniture was guided by the court. When Louis XV, who reigned from 1715–74, focused royal life on the smaller salons of Versailles rather than its grand chambers, it transformed the aesthetics away from the imposing and angular furniture that characterized the style of Louis XIV. A broader focus on comfort and more delicate forms define antique Louis XV furniture, with nature-inspired carvings, wood inlays, curved cabriole legs, asymmetrical shapes and rounded oval seat backs. The furnishings changed throughout the king’s life, as he ascended to the throne as a child and then grew to establish his own tastes.
Pieces like the bergère, an upholstered armchair with a wide cushion that fit the flowing dresses in fashion at the time, reflected this more informal court. Introduced at the start of Louis XV’s reign, bergère chairs in this style were deeper and broader than other chairs of the period.
Louis XV tapestries and carpets tended to be floral and colorful, and design elements were borrowed from Asia. Dutch-born cabinetmaker Bernard van Risenburgh brought lacquer techniques influenced by Japan and China into his luxuriously made furniture. Along with its fine details, the furniture of the era also featured new innovations including mechanical devices. Jean François Oeben, a royal cabinetmaker, created such intricate pieces as a mechanical table for Madame de Pompadour, Louis XV’s mistress. It involved a sliding top and a writing surface that extended from its marquetry panels.
During the later years of Louis XV’s reign, there was a shift from the ostentatious rocaille style, part of the exuberantly decorative Rococo movement in Europe for which designers such as Nicolas Pineau and Juste-Aurèle Meissonier are known. The style under Louis XVI would return to boxier forms, but with a neoclassical touch inspired by the ancient world.
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Style: Louis XV
Vintage French Louis XV Style Brevetatto Italy Brass & Marble Figural Clock Set
By Brevettato
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage French Louis XV Style Brevetatto Italy Brass & Marble Figural Clock Set - 3 Pc Set. Item features an ornate figural clock with hoof foot cherubs and black marble accents, 2 ornate candelabras with 7 candle holders...
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Mid-20th Century Louis XV Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
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Marble, Brass
Louis XV Style 19th-20th Century Figural Gilt Bronze White Marble Mantel Clock
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very fine and important palatial Louis XV style 19th-20th century figural gilt bronze white marble mantel clock with figures of cherubs, the enamel dial with Arabic numerals and fo...
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1890s French Antique Louis XV Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
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Marble, Bronze
French Rococo Ormolu Mantel Clock Set by Samuel Marti
Located in Miami, FL
A very large and fine antique French clock set, circa 1880. It is of Rococo design boldly modeled in gilt bronze. Waisted keyhole shape with acanthus leaf shoulders, 'C' scroll feet standing on its original integral base. The top adorned with a putti and a musical instrument. To the sides are sound frets. The large dial is porcelain.
The design is attributed to by the highly inventive and influential rococo goldsmith and architect Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (1695-1750). Born in Turin, Meissonnier emigrated to France to work in the royal Gobelins factory in 1724 and in 1726 succeeded Jean II Bérain as architect and draughtsman to the Chambre et Cabinet du Roi. His designs for candelabra and other objects appear in the Dousieme livre des Oeuvres de J. A. Messonnier, Livre de Chandeliers de Sculpture en Argent published by Gabriel Huquier in the 1740s. A similar candelabrum in the Munich Residenz is illustrated in Ottomeyer and Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen (Munich 1986).
The French movement is of high quality and is by Samuel Marti...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XV Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
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Crystal, Ormolu, Bronze
Antique Louis XV Style Patinated and Gilt Bronze Clock
Located in London, GB
Designed in a fanciful Louis XV style, this beautiful mantel clock takes the form of an Asian elephant, saddled with a howdah (carriage). The clock features a patinated sculpture of ...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XV Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
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Enamel, Ormolu, Bronze
French 19th Century Louis XV St. Meissen Porcelain and Ormolu Clock
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An exceptional and most decorative French 19th century Louis XV st. Meissen porcelain and ormolu clock signed Meissen and Crosnier. The clock is raised by a beautiful scrolled ground...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XV Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
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Ormolu
Rare 19th Century Ormolu Elephant Clock in the Louis XV Style
Located in London, GB
An important mantle Clock 'à l'éléphant'
in the Louis XV style.
Constructed from gilt, hand-chased, and burnished bronze with patinated detail, the mantle clock on an asymmetric Rococo scrolling base with naturalistic features; the main body modelled as an elephant astride, mounted with a turbaned figure of a mahout (elephant keeper) in charge and his companion monkey, the elephant's back supporting a bamboo houdah enclosing the white enamelled dial marking the hours and minutes in Roman and Arabic numerals respectively, a tasselled cushion perched atop with two oriental figures holding parasols.
French, circa 1840
Clocks incorporating animals reigned supreme during the Louis XV period, at a time when curiosity for new cultures was at its height. The exoticism found expression in the accounts of explorers describing rhinoceros, lions and elephants, which were enthusiastically absorbed into European decorative arts.
The elephant acquired a particular aura following the diplomatic gift of the King of Siam to King Louis XIV of an elephant in 1686. Elephants had been used as motifs in horology since the Renaissance period, representing the theme of 'rulership' in the Kunstkammer, as seen in the Augsburg Automaton in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum. The Elephant Clock...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XV Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
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Bronze, Ormolu
Three-Piece Clock by Samuel Marti Attributed Alfred Emmanuel Louis Beurdeley
By Samuel Marti
Located in Milano, IT
Majestic set consisting of a French ormolu clock and two large candelabra. The ormolu watch is made by Samuel Marti. The bronze is attributed to Alfred Em...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XV Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
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Bronze
19th Century French "Boulle" Mantel Clock, Louis XV Style
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
19th century French "Boulle" mantel clock, Louis XV style.
French Boulle style clock with tortiose shell and inlay. Gilt bronze case mounts of ro...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XV Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Mantel Clock 18th Century Louis Xv Period by Estienne Menu À, Paris
Located in Warsaw, PL
This stunning antique bracket clock is a fine example of luxurious 18th-century European design, combining meticulous craftsmanship with timeless...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XV Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
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Bronze
18th Century, Italian Wood Ringtone and Alarm Table Clock with Gilt Bronze
Located in IT
18th century, Italian Louis XV wood ringtone and alarm table clock with gilt bronze
This table clock was made in the north of Italy (Genoa) 18th century, Louis XV era. The case, t...
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Mid-18th Century Italian Antique Louis XV Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
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Bronze
Antique Swiss Hand Painted Wall Clock by Le Castel
Located in London, GB
A stunning antique Swiss hand painted wall clock by Le Castel, dating from around the mid twentieth century.
This is of incredibly fine quality, it...
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1960s Swiss Vintage Louis XV Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
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Glass, Wood
Gilt Bronze and Wood Table Clock, France, Late 19th Century
By Ecole Boulle
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Gilt bronze and wood table clock, France, late 19th century.
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XV Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
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Bronze
19th Century French Mantel Desk Clock Ormolu Mounts, Boulle Style
Located in Miami, FL
A superb quality antique French mantel clock, circa 1875. This Boulle style clock is made with red tortoiseshell typical of the period, and brass inlays to the case front and sides f...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XV Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
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Brass, Bronze
A Large Ormolu and Chased Cartel Clock in the Louis XV Style, 19th Century.
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A large ormolu and chased cartel clock in the Louis XV style, 19th century.
A 19th century ormolu cartel clock in the Louis XV style, decorated with a musical cherub with a lyre.
H:...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XV Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
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Bronze
Clock, Cartel in Louis XV Style
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Clock, Cartel in Louis XV style, 19th century, Napoleon III period.
Measures: H: 45 cm, W: 22 cm, D: 14 cm.
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1870s European Antique Louis XV Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
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Bronze
Cartel with Its Base in the Style of Boulle
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Cartel with its Base in the style of Boulle, brass inlays and imitating tortoise shell, Louis XV style, Napoleon III period, 19th century.
Measures: H: 45 cm, W: 28 cm, D: 17 cm.
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1870s French Antique Louis XV Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Brass
Pendulum Clock Bronze & Marble Representing Virgin Child & St John the Baptist
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Very beautiful fireplace clock in marble, patinated and gilded bronze representing the Virgin Mary sitting on a rock holding the infant Jesus in her arms, with at their side st John ...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XV Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
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Marble, Bronze
Sèvres Parian Attr, Louis XV, French Mantle Clock, Parian, Bronze, 19th Century
Located in Manhasset, NY
Sèvres Parian Attr, Louis XV, French Porcelain, Bronze and Parian French Mantle or Desk Clock, Paris
Sevres attributed Parian full figured maidens flank this finely crafted mantle c...
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1890s French Antique Louis XV Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
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Bronze
1800 Clock Bronze Rocaille by Denier in Paris "A World Aquatic"
Located in Paris, FR
Clock Rocaille were decorated with shells, heron eating a frog, siréne and a man playing the horn, the snake, the crocodile, the winged griffons, the movement has thread, at the begi...
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Early 1800s French Antique Louis XV Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
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Bronze
French 18th Century Louis XV Period/Louis XVI Ormolu and Patinated Bronze Clock
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An elegant French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu nine light chandelier. The chandelier is centered by an outstanding bottom acorn inverted finial amidst richly chased acanthus leaf patterns. Each S scrolled arm is decorated with fine acanthus leaves ending in striking floral candle cups and reeded twisted bobeches. The reeded straight central fut leads up to a large, attractive acanthus leaf canopy. With all original gilt throughout. Julien Le Roy (1686-1759) a renowned 18th Century Parisian...
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18th Century French Antique Louis XV Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
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Bronze, Ormolu
Vintage Petite French Bronze Cherub Ormolu Rococo Louis XV Style Clock
Located in Chicago, IL
Adorable Petite French bronze Cherub clock. Uncertain to the exact age of the clock. I would estimate it to be from the early 20th century, but pos...
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Early 20th Century Louis XV Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
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Bronze
Gilt-Bronze and Cloisonné Garniture with Angels Figures, France, 19th Century
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Gilt-bronze and cloisonné garniture with angels figures, France, 19th century.
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XV Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
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Marble, Bronze, Enamel
Pendulum Antique circa 1870 Wood with Gilded Bronze Mechanik Gustaf Becker
Located in Berlin, DE
Pendule of the early days, circa 1870 wood decorated with splendidly gilded bronze, work by Gustaf Becker clock with striking mechanism working with key a...
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19th Century German Antique Louis XV Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
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Oak
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Louis Xv table clocks and desk clocks for sale on 1stDibs.
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